Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've ...

Documentation provides one of the most detailed observations of seafloor biodiversity and habitats at these depths ...

There are some quite mysterious and strange creatures lurking in the deepest parts of the world’s oceans. Watch the latest ...

Scientists are revolutionizing how new marine species are described through the Ocean Species Discoveries initiative. Using advanced lab techniques, researchers recently unveiled 14 new species from ...

The recently announced discoveries were made on a 2022 deep-sea expedition off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast ...

Wonders of Nature and Imagination" exhibit at Harvard University's Museum of Natural History looks at creatures deep beneath ...

When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only the surface. Venture deeper, far below the last reach of sunlight, and you ...

Deep sea mining has disastrous consequences for marine life, many of which are still unknown to oceanographers.

Using a deep-sea submersible vehicle, researchers captured a small animal having a strange snack. Screengrab from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's video Miles below the surface of the ocean, ...

New research has found that deep-sea mining in international waters could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and ...

Light is a primary driver of visual evolution in shrimp, according to new FIU research published this week in Nature Communications Biology. The deep sea is a dark place, with the only light coming ...

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a strange glowing sea slug off the coast of California that lives in the water column — unlike most other species of its kind. When you purchase through links on ...