The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

Scientists are revolutionizing how new marine species are described through the Ocean Species Discoveries initiative. Using advanced lab techniques, researchers recently unveiled 14 new species from ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

There's always a lot going on in the deep ocean, but anyone who had “carnivorous 'death-ball' sponge” on their bingo card for ...

Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've ...

Documentation provides one of the most detailed observations of seafloor biodiversity and habitats at these depths ...

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 ...

Scientists discovered a new crustacean species in the Atacama Trench, 8,000 meters deep, revealing the Hadal zone as a ...

Underneath the ocean's surface lies a vast and ancient world. As demand for sustainable technologies increases, attention is ...

Meet the Atlantic wolffish, green humphead parrotfish, and other unusual species with extraordinary adaptations.

Diverse life forms exist on and within the ocean floor. These primarily consist of microbes, tiny organisms that can cope ...

Two tiny new species, a porcelain crab and a lantern shark, were discovered during a 2022 deep-sea expedition off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast in the Gascoyne Marine Park, recent research confir ...