The Schmidt Ocean Institute's ROV SuBastian — a robot fitted with a slew of scientific instruments and capable of descending ...

For the first time ever, a colossal squid has been captured on camera in the deep sea, offering researchers a rare look at one of the ocean’s most elusive giants. The footage was captured last month ...

Also found on a submarine canyon floor: a deep-sea worm sometimes called a "disco worm," but scientifically known as a polychaete (which means “many bristles”), glittering like sparkly steel wool.

The discovery, led by scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute in Palo Alto, California, revealed a previously unknown ...

They may be “abundant” and “abundantly large” in polar regions due to “deep-sea gigantism”, a phenomenon of several deep-sea animals growing larger than their shallow-water relatives.

Photo by Huang M-C, Kawai T (2025) At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four giant crustaceans hauled in as bycatch by a trawling vessel in the South China Sea. The deep-sea dwellers ...

Scientists have filmed a giant deep-sea spider crawling on the Southern Ocean floor, shedding more light on the diversity of underwater arachnids. Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute ...