China's new deep-sea manned submersible Fendouzhe, or Striver, set a national diving record of 10,909 meters on Tuesday in ...

Hardly anyone has ventured into the ocean’s deepest, darkest realms, an otherworldly place where new discoveries continue to emerge. Down in these uncharted waters live creatures so unusual they seem ...

A new type of visual cell has been identified in three fish species – the photoreceptor cell is adapted to gloomy light ...

Deep in the ocean’s depths, where sunlight barely reaches, lives a remarkable creature nicknamed the “headless chicken monster.” Scientifically known as Enypniastes eximia, this translucent sea ...

The deep sea is a dark, cold place. It's just a few degrees above freezing, subject to immense pressure, and beyond the reach ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

A brooding mother octopus shelters her eggs behind two different types of corals. The image was made by pilots using a robot to explore the north wall of the Mar Del Plata submarine canyon in ...

The deep sea, the planet’s most expansive and least understood ecosystem, remains largely unexplored. Yet while the deep sea may seem a dark and distant space, events underwater directly impact our ...

A new study indicates that deep-sea mining could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras, many of which are already at risk of extinction. The authors found that seabed sediment ...