The Challenger ... animals "bioluminesce," flashing like fireflies. They turn on headlights to see food or attract mates; anglerfish dangle wormlike glowing appendages to lure prey. Some deep-sea ...

British ship Challenger sails the globe while lowering dredges and other gear into the deep ... of animals previously unknown to science. Prince Albert of Monaco starts to probe the sea's dark ...

Finding anything at the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth, is extremely exciting for scientists.

A trap returned from 8,221 meters writhing with dozens of gigantic amphipods, prawnlike creatures with ... a course for the Challenger Deep, more than 200 miles out to sea. But when the ship ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

The pair were responsible for giving the world its first glimpses of incredible deep sea creatures in a revolutionary ... In the 1870s, the British ship HMS Challenger found deep-sea organisms ...