A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the biological production of light—is one of ...

The blobfish, known for its unattractive appearance, has been declared New Zealand's Fish of the Year, altering public ...

The International Seabed Authority will convene in July to discuss this and other issues. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

In a world where new species are constantly being discovered, some creatures remain hidden in the depths of the ocean, ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.A study published in ...

For the first time, a group of killer whales has been documented preying upon a prickly shark, a rare deep-sea dweller, according to a study published on March 20 in the journal Frontiers in Fish ...

To the team’s surprise, the “low-cost deep sea cameras” filmed two clips of painted swellsharks, the study said. Painted swellsharks, or Cephaloscyllium pictum, are a poorly known shark species first ...