Join me as we hold a living deep-sea isopod, a creature that looks straight out of a sci-fi movie, and learn about its unique biology.

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

Scientists searching the deep sea off the coast of Hawaii released video this month of a dumbo octopus, the deepest-living of all known octopuses. You are what you read. Reveal your 2024 reader ...

While mapping an unexplored seamount on the Nazca Ridge, oceanographers have discovered 20 new species and captured footage of extremely rare creatures. The Nazca Ridge is located in the deep sea ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

A robotic explorer filmed the deep-sea worm as part of Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition of the Chile Margin Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013 ...

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

Scientists on a research expedition in the Southern Ocean captured the first footage of a living Gonatus antarcticus squid. The colorful, three-foot squid species was only known to scientists ...

However, similar to humans camping out on a space station or on the surface of another planet for an extended period, there are some technical challenges for long-term deep-sea living. Experiments ...

The deep sea provides food to many species in shallower waters, like the swordfish, which dives up to 1,200 meters to feed. Related We’re protecting the ocean wrong ...

They were living inside cavities within the Earth's crust at an ocean-floor site where the Pacific is 1.56 miles (2,515 meters) deep. All the species were previously known to have lived near such ...

An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living off the West Coast of the US. CNN values your feedback 1.