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

Scientists could never square theory with data on how certain organisms fixed carbon. Turns out they were asking the wrong ...

Stanford researchers have uncovered evidence that deep underwater earthquakes can spur the growth of massive phytoplankton ...

Scientific divers have navigated a series of treacherous dives more than 330 feet deep in an attempt to unravel the mysteries ...

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

Beneath cold, high-pressure oceans, water and gas molecules clump together into crystalline solids called gas hydrates.

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

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the ...

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

New research highlights significant ecological risks from deep-sea mining, intensifying global debate over whether securing ...