Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

So, blobfish don’t really look like melting ice cream in their natural environment. Underwater, they’re shaped like tadpoles: ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Scientists discover ‘thriving ecosystem’ of deep sea creatures after iceberg breaks off in Antarctica - Ecosystem could be ...

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

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 ...

Recent discoveries have shattered previous assumptions, unveiling a trio of deep-sea marvels that redefine our understanding ...

Despite growing interest in deep-sea mining, much of the deep ocean, particularly the midwater zone, remains poorly understood. A 2023 study in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone found that 88% to 92% of ...

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