Despite crushing pressure, total darkness and near-freezing temperatures, researchers found an underwater world teeming with ...

The mid-ocean ridge runs through the oceans like a suture. Where Earth's plates move apart, new oceanic crust is continuously ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with ...

Scientists exploring the deep Pacific Ocean have uncovered a strange “yellow brick road” on the seabed near Hawaii. The ...

A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore ...

Scientists discovered deep Arctic methane mounds that release gas, shape ecosystems, and inform climate risks.

Half the planet lies outside any country’s border. In those waters, rules have long been thinner than the myths: freedom to ...

A lot of weird-looking life-forms lurk in the deep sea, and this year we got some spectacularly close looks at several of ...

Bone-eating zombie worms vanished from Pacific canyons during a 10-year study, raising concerns that oxygen loss is altering ...

A deep-sea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has begun in the Indian Ocean, reviving efforts to solve one of aviation’s ...

There was an era of horror and thriller cinema where animals like alligators and sharks attacking and killing humans had ...