Deep-sea fish study reveals evolutionary marvels in Earth's hadal zone
The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...
Marine engineers: Five species that shape underwater ecosystems
Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...
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Footprints of deep-sea mining
Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...
Taking the seagrass taxi: How foraminifera move from the coast to the depths of the Red Sea
Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms with a calcareous shell. They not only provide evidence of past habitats, but ...
Deep-sea mining sediment plumes travel farther than expected, monitoring study finds
On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...
Why Did The Deep Sea Anglerfish Rise Thousands of Feet in the Ocean? Scientists Baffled by Odd Behaviour – 'I Thought It Was AI!'
Jara and his team were able to swim alongside and capture this rare sighting of the black seadevil, a species that usually inhabits the inky depths of the ocean ...
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An Anglerfish has the internet crying, Scientists are scratching their heads
When the anglerfish was first documented in 1833 along the shores of Greenland by zoologist Johannes Christopher Hagemann Reinhardt, it was deemed one of the mo ...