The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

Dr. Lauren Smith, a marine biologist at research organization Saltwater Life, called the flotsam “an extraordinary find,” ...

Crazy Filipino street food in Zamboanga City, Philippines. The rare curacha deep sea crab is found in the waters around Zamboanga, and today we tasted the rare curacha crab, papaitan and a bunch of ...

Looking out of the Fendouzhe submersible, more than nine kilometres below the ocean surface, Mengran Du knew she was seeing ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, ...

The discovery In May 1925 provided fodder for the argument between creationists and evolutionary biologists, but what does ...

These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered 30 previously unknown deep-sea species in the remote ocean surrounding Antarctica, they announced last week—an achievement highlighting just how little humanity knows about ...

In the deep-sea meta, strength means nothing and adaptation means everything. From anglerfish with living lures to crustaceans built for crushing pressure, these creatures prove that evolution doesn’t ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...