Somewhere on the abyssal plain between Hawaii and Mexico, more than four kilometers below the surface, 24 species of tiny ...

When scientists at Germany’s Senckenberg Natural History Museum asked the internet to help name a newly discovered deep-sea ...

A giant squid was discovered by researchers in Western Australia. There have been two other records of the giant squid in ...

Meet the bigfin squid, a quid with 'elbows', enormous rippling fins and tentacles like long, rippling strands of spaghetti ...

The mystery of the ‘golden orb’ found at the bottom of the ocean has been solved by scientists after two-and-a-half ...

But it isn’t doing it alone; for a month starting this week, it will deploy two oblong neon submersibles as the project’s ...

There's increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths isn't fully understood. A new review led by our scientists is giving us our ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the seafloor for manganese, nickel, cobalt and other minerals used in electric vehicles, solar panels and more. Meanwhile, ...