Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam. It’s like twilight to the human eye, even in the middle of the day. This part ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hermit crab found in the water off the coast of Guam in November 2025. - California Academy of Sciences Only a scattering of ...

Life is abundant, even in the deepest parts of the ocean.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun shimmers across the glassy surface of Blue Hole, a heart-shaped underwater sinkhole, as two divers prepare to descend into ...

The discoveries were found after researchers from the California Academy of Sciences retrieved 13 reef monitoring devices that had been placed in deep coral reefs in Guam, which had been collecting ...

Somewhere around 5,000 years ago, the deep-sea corals that had clung to seamounts off the Galápagos Islands for more than 100 ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some coral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a disastrous year for coral reefs in which abnormally high ocean temperatures served a fatal blow to many of the vital ...

The sun shimmers across the glassy surface of Blue Hole, a heart-shaped underwater sinkhole, as two divers prepare to descend into its treacherous, turquoise abyss. In this part of the ocean, known as ...

Scientists believe they have discovered at least 20 new species in a deep part of the Pacific Ocean. The discoveries were found after researchers from the California Academy of Sciences retrieved 13 ...