The average depth is already scary, but the deepest point of all is truly enormous ...
Scientists call it marine snow, and it plays a major role in carrying carbon from the ocean’s surface into its depths. A new study from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the ...
From hydrothermal vents teeming with undiscovered life to shells dissolving in acidifying seas, the deep ocean is both a ...
The ancestors of the giant isopod Bathynomus jamesi—a seafloor-dwelling creature that resembles a huge pill bug—acquired the snippet of DNA from bacteria more than 16 million years ago, according to a ...
Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study. Reading time 3 minutes Animals living in one of Earth’s most ...
Deep-sea scientists discovers 57 new species, including one they compare to "SpongeBob" character Patrick Star.
More than 700 people attended the event, learning more about the least-explored ecosystem on the planet and the researchers ...
A mischievous sea cucumber and 56 other newly discovered marine species are making a splash in the South Atlantic Ocean. The ...
A stress-test of The Metals Company's own figures finds deep-sea mining destroys value in most scenarios and could cost ...
The standout find was "Loki the Sea Cucumber," a member of the genus Peniagone whose horn-like appendages recalled the Norse ...
The nearly 13-inch crustacean was brought to Germany from Puerto Rico in the 1980s, but its true identity remained a mystery ...