A recent marine expedition found fascinating new species in the deep Pacific, highlighting how little is still known about life beneath the ocean.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Genetic tests confirm that a mysterious, unnamed species of beaked whale only rarely seen alive by Japanese fishermen roams the northern Pacific Ocean, according to research ...

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches, researchers said in a newly published paper. The deep-sea trenches, also called Hadal ...

The cause is the extreme warming of the North Pacific Ocean, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Since 2009, researchers in Germany have been tracking“ nine geophysical ...

These species have evolved to survive extreme environments and live far beyond what we typically associate with animal lifespans.

A researcher has recorded three sharks in a “threesome”, or ménage à trois, marking a scientific first. Hugo Lassauce, a marine biologist and a researcher from the University of the Sunshine Coast in ...

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

The blob is back, and no, I am not talking about the movies about the alien blob monsters. I am talking about the Pacific “Blob”, a large area of warmer water stretching over the North Pacific Ocean, ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after a judge in Hawaii sided this week with environmentalists challenging ...