Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

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For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on ...

More than a million giant skate eggs are discovered incubating in the heat of an underwater Pacific Ocean volcano.

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the research vessel Falkor (too) have spotted rare Antarctic squid, discovered ...

A deep-sea mining test shows ecosystem damage can begin immediately, with more than one-third of seafloor animals lost in a single pass.

A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare ...

The ocean is home to a vast array of different animals, each with its own traits. These include different forms of mating, ...