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

A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest life forms thrive. These deep-sea creatures have evolved in total darkness ...

Far below the Pacific, a volcano long written off as geologically dead has turned out to be both active and teeming with life ...

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

Deep below sunlight, a rarely seen frilled shark reveals ancient anatomy, slow reproduction, and mysterious habits, offering ...

The deep sea is home to weird and wonderful creatures that, over millions of years, have evolved specific traits to survive the extreme conditions of their habitat. These adaptations to their ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

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

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

A new study has found that deep-sea mining may pose a big threat to tuna species moving into the eastern Pacific Ocean as climate change pushes them into the open ocean. "These tuna are going to be ...

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