The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

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 ...

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 ...

Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms with a calcareous shell. They not only provide evidence of past habitats, but ...

On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...

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 ...

Despite its eerie reputation, the fish is rarely observed, even in its natural deep-sea habitat. Scientists are still debating why the anglerfish was seen near the surface, far from its usual deep ...