DEEP SEA

A tomographic image of trace fossils of a burrowing animal.

Deep-Sea Creatures Are Crafting Their Own Worlds Beneath the Ocean Floor, Study Finds

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

Biology Isaac Schultz

An exaggerated bathymetric image of the Axial Seamount off the Oregon coast.

Underwater Volcano Off Oregon Will Erupt This Year, Scientists Predict

The Axial Seamount is gonna blow, scientists say. The only question is when.

Earth Science Isaac Schultz

First-of-Its-Kind Glowing Sea Creature Discovered in Ocean’s ‘Midnight Zone’

A nudibranch from the midnight zone has fingers on its tail, collects food with a hood, and glows.

Biology Isaac Schultz

A view into the subsurface cavity near deep-sea hydrothermal vents.

Scientists Discover Animals Beneath the Ocean Floor, Offering Clues to Life Beyond Earth

The remarkable discovery of animal life beneath the seafloor shows that life finds a way even in the most extreme environments, potentially boosting hopes for finding life beyond Earth.

Biology Isaac Schultz

Photo of a portion of a core sample taken from the Atlantic Ocean seafloor.

Epic Drilling Mission Sets New Record With 4,160-Foot Mantle Core

To learn about how rocks and minerals get pushed from the Earth's mantle to the seafloor, scientists drilled a really, really deep hole.

Earth Science Adam Kovac

Scientists Shocked by Electric Rocks Producing Oxygen in Deep Ocean

The discovery that electric rocks make oxygen challenges the long-held belief that only photosynthetic organisms produce our planet's oxygen.

Earth Science Adam Kovac

Watch Live: NOAA’s ‘Voyage to the Ridge’ Deep Ocean Expeditions

A video livestream is showing rare footage of undersea mountains, thermal vents, corals, and possibly new-to-science species, now through September.

Earth Science Lauren Leffer

6 Surreal Views of New and Rare Deep Sea Creatures

A whale shark, rare corals, and a transparent octopus are just some of the animals researchers found in the depths of the Pacific.

Conservation Dharna Noor

Image: D. Osterhage et al., 2020/PLOS ONE

Deepwater Sightings of Rare Bigfin Squid Reveal Some Serious Weirdness

An extensive survey of deep waters off the coast of Australia has resulted in a trove of bigfin squid sightings. And by trove, we mean the detection of five individuals—these deep-sea creatures are exceptionally rare, so any new observations are quite valuable to scientists. “Deep-sea cephalopods are highly diverse and widespread yet often shrouded in…

Biology George Dvorsky

Scientists Unlock the Secret to Ultra-Black Skin of Deep-Sea Fish

New research shows how some deep-sea fish, with their specialized, ultra-black skin, are able to avoid detection even in the presence of light. Certain black-skinned fish, like dragonfish and fangtooth, are capable of absorbing more than 99.5% of light that reaches them, according to new research published today in Current Biology. So even in the…

Biology George Dvorsky

‘It Really Is Otherworldly’: What It’s Like to Visit the Hot Springs of the Deep Sea

Thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface, boiling hot plumes of seawater shoot like geysers into the abyss. There, some of the strangest life on Earth thrives. Thousands of white crabs with spindly legs creep along the seafloor. Eight-foot-long worms with bright red, mouthless heads poke out of white PVC-looking tubes. Massive golden octopuses float…

Earther Dharna Noor

Scientists Found a Vast, Deep Sea Coral Garden off Greenland’s Coast

In the depths of the water just west of Greenland, scientists have discovered a previously unknown coral garden. They described the ecosystem in a new study published in Frontiers in Marine Science on Monday. The garden sits 1,600 feet below sea level, where the pressure is 50 times greater than at the surface. The researchers…

Earther Dharna Noor

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Scientists Captured New Footage of the Deepest-Living Octopus

Scientists have discovered a potentially new species of the adorable “dumbo” octopus in a very unique place. At more than 4 miles (6,957 meters) under the Indian Ocean, the newly discovered octo was found at the deepest depths of any cephalopod has been observed. The discovery—published in the journal Marine Biology Tuesday—signals that there’s still so…

Conservation Yessenia Funes

Life Is Thriving 2,600 Feet Beneath the Seafloor

You won’t see many living things above the ocean surface hundreds of miles southeast of Madagascar—an albatross or the occasional fishing vessel may break up the hours of solitude. But beneath the surface, lava from Earth’s mantle has uplifted a long, underwater mountain range with a flat top extending 5 kilometers above the seafloor. Its…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Dead Alligators Dropped to the Bottom of the Sea Make for a Rare and Delicious Meal

An experiment to see how deep-sea creatures might react to the presence of an uncommon food source—alligator carcasses—has resulted in some fascinating new science. As many of you will recall, Gizmodo covered some of this research in April of last year. The marine biologists responsible for the experiment have finally published their long-awaited results in…

Biology George Dvorsky

8 Oceanic Creature Features That Delight in Underwater Perils

Humans who find themselves living beneath the ocean in sci-fi movies might as well be living in space. Many of the dangers are the same, be they natural (oxygen scarcity, claustrophobic proximity to asshole co-workers) or unnatural (monsters!). Needless to say, it’s a setting that has inspired a lot of filmmakers. This Friday brings a…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

How Scientists Filmed a Giant Squid in North American Waters for the First Time

Scientists spotted an elusive giant squid in its deep-ocean habitat in American waters for the first time. These titanic, whale-battling beasts are rarely seen, so this sighting is a thrill for biologists and regular folk alike. Giant squids are 30- to 43-foot cephalopods that inhabit the ocean at depths of 980 to 3,280 feet, where…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Chernobyl, Schrödinger’s Cat, and Telegram Terrorists: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Happy Sunday evening! Hopefully the events of the last week have been going better for you than YouTube, which spent an impossibly long time flailing around like a Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man after refusing to remove videos of a conservative internet personality taunting a journalist with racist, homophobic harassment. Hopefully the week…

Tech News Tom McKay

The Deep-Sea Dragonfish Has One of the Most Terrifying Smiles on Earth

Scientists have shined a light on one of the creepier denizens of the deep sea, a pitch-black creature that can turn itself into a living lamp called the dragonfish. New research helps explain one of the dragonfish’s more disturbing qualities: its relatively gigantic and translucent teeth. Deep-sea dragonfish, while rarely more than a half-foot long,…

Biology Ed Cara

New Device Brings Twilight Zone Sea Creatures Into the Sunlight

We’ve only explored a tiny percentage of the deep ocean, and most of its denizens remain alien to the public. Now, a team of researchers is working to change that with a portable device that transports creatures of the so-called mesophotic zone to the surface in one piece—that is, without causing their insides to explode…

Conservation Maddie Stone

DEEP SEA

Deep-Sea Creatures Are Crafting Their Own Worlds Beneath the Ocean Floor, Study Finds

Underwater Volcano Off Oregon Will Erupt This Year, Scientists Predict

First-of-Its-Kind Glowing Sea Creature Discovered in Ocean’s ‘Midnight Zone’

Scientists Discover Animals Beneath the Ocean Floor, Offering Clues to Life Beyond Earth

Epic Drilling Mission Sets New Record With 4,160-Foot Mantle Core

Scientists Shocked by Electric Rocks Producing Oxygen in Deep Ocean

Watch Live: NOAA’s ‘Voyage to the Ridge’ Deep Ocean Expeditions

6 Surreal Views of New and Rare Deep Sea Creatures

Deepwater Sightings of Rare Bigfin Squid Reveal Some Serious Weirdness

Scientists Unlock the Secret to Ultra-Black Skin of Deep-Sea Fish

‘It Really Is Otherworldly’: What It’s Like to Visit the Hot Springs of the Deep Sea

Scientists Found a Vast, Deep Sea Coral Garden off Greenland’s Coast

Scientists Captured New Footage of the Deepest-Living Octopus

Life Is Thriving 2,600 Feet Beneath the Seafloor

Dead Alligators Dropped to the Bottom of the Sea Make for a Rare and Delicious Meal

8 Oceanic Creature Features That Delight in Underwater Perils

How Scientists Filmed a Giant Squid in North American Waters for the First Time

Chernobyl, Schrödinger’s Cat, and Telegram Terrorists: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

The Deep-Sea Dragonfish Has One of the Most Terrifying Smiles on Earth

New Device Brings Twilight Zone Sea Creatures Into the Sunlight

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