High pressure in the deep ocean may squeeze nutrients from sinking “marine snow,” feeding deep-sea microbes and altering how ...

Scientists have discovered a massive deep-sea coral reef system off the coast of Argentina that may be one of the largest on ...

Robotic and autonomous underwater vehicles have collected vast quantities of footage from the deep sea, but most of it hasn’t ...

(Saunderstown, RI — May 7, 2025) In a groundbreaking study published today in Science Advances, researchers from Ocean Discovery League reveal that only a minuscule fraction of the deep seafloor has ...

About 5,000 species of crustaceans in the order Isopoda live in Earth’s oceans. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they all have two pairs of antennae, compound eyes, ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows. A study published in the journal Nature found that the site of a ...

I spent years preparing to dive into the deepest place on earth. Only a handful of people have traveled into the depths of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles below the ocean surface. As a geologist ...