Scientists from Australia and Japan studying three trenches find ‘organisms have adapted strategies to filter things out of ...

They say we know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about the bottom of the ocean, which is what made it so ...

By Elizabeth Claire Alberts New research has found that deep-sea mining in international waters could threaten at least 30 ...

Deep sea mining has disastrous consequences for marine life, many of which are still unknown to oceanographers.

Scientists are speeding up the naming of deep-sea species before they vanish, using new tools to uncover life from below the ...

Scientists have discovered two new spooky sea creatures living hundreds of metres under the ocean. Find out more here.

The gulper eel ( Saccopharynx lavenbergi), also called a pelican eel, is roughly a meter of tail and mouth. This unusual fish, the only species in the genus Eurypharynx, slinks through the water as ...

When the submarine plunged to about 1,500 meters below sea level, ecologist Jeff Drazen asked the pilots to cut the strobe lights that had been guiding them through the pitch-black waters. For a ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — Scientists exploring the deep waters off California’s coast have discovered a tiny new species of snailfish that has been capturing attention not only for its scientific value but ...

Nitrous oxide production typically increases in the absence of oxygen, but Sun’s research shows that this relationship is not smooth and instead a result of competition between different microbes.

Twenty-seven photographs from seven deep-sea localities in the North Atlantic reveal cirrate octopods in their natural habitat. The photographs demonstrate that these octopods are benthopelagic, ...

A new review reveals how tiny shell-building plankton quietly drive carbon cycling and influence global climate change.