As companies search underwater for resources, scientists are taking inventory of the ocean-dwelling creatures that could be ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists ...

The 30cm-long (11.8in) juvenile was spotted at a depth of 600m (1,968ft), near the South Sandwich Islands in the south ...

Giant amphipod species Alicella gigantea, once thought to be very rare, is found to inhabit the majority of Earth's deep ...

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

As demand soars for critical minerals for electronics and renewable energies, experts have debated the risks and benefits of ...

Halalaimus is a microscopic nematode genus commonly found in sediment on the seafloor. It lives 1–5 cm below the sediment ...

Deep-sea mining trials revealed significant but localized biodiversity loss in one of the planet’s least explored ecosystems.

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

Deep-sea creatures exhibit gigantism, with football-sized eyes and van-sized sponges thriving in crushing darkness. These ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...

Drones often capture footage of great whites and other sharks swimming in the shallows near beaches. Most sharks can be found in the upper sectors of the Earth’s oceans – but did you know that there ...