While surveying the Arabian Sea off the coast of Pakistan, researchers discovered an approximately 9-inch sea creature with a “slender,” “sandwich-like” tail. That was in 1963 — since then experts ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

Given how underexplored the Pacific Ocean is, it is not surprising that new species are being discovered every time a manned or unmanned deep-water submersible is launched to document the species ...

The midnight zone begins half a mile beneath the ocean, and is an area so deep that no sunlight can reach it. Few humans have seen the animals who live there — until now. A groundbreaking exhibit at ...