More than 8,000 people submitted name suggestions for a tiny mollusk pulled from a sunken log nearly three miles beneath the ...
A sea turtle's shell is living bone fused directly to its spine and ribs. It is not a detachable shield or an external case, as certain quirky cartoons have shown. The shell grows with the turtle, ...
Around the deep-sea vents off the southern coast of Japan, a small, “glass”-like creature was discovered. Getty Images/iStockphoto Off the coast of Japan, thousands of feet below the surface, the ...
New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t Jack Tamisiea Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea ...
There was nothing outwardly impressive about the clam sitting on the deck of the research vessel Bjarni Saemundsson. The dull, gray creature, dredged from the muddy bottom of the North Atlantic, was ...