On the ocean floor, mouthless worms are quietly dismantling whale skeletons using acid-secreting roots and an unlikely ...

When a large marine mammal like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process known as whale fall. For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures will live off of the whale’s ...

Argentine scientists aboard the Talud Continental IV expedition have documented the country’s first known deep-sea whale fall ...

Some of the whale fossils are 5.3 million years old, making this the deepest and oldest whale graveyard ever discovered.

Every living organism is a part of the circle of life, as depicted by Disney’s The Lion King. However, in real life, this ...

In a scary movie, creatures that can't always be seen often provide the biggest frights for characters and viewers alike. In deep-ocean research, the absence of one particular creature—the so-called ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: In 2009, researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute discovered (what is likely) the 16-foot-long carcass of a gray whale ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: We all know about the circle of life, but understanding the life-and-death engine that fuels the Earth and actually seeing it in action are two very ...