Scientists have long assumed the deep- sea Alicella gigantea was an uncommon survivor of the abyss.

Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, in a remote stretch of the Pacific between Hawaii and Mexico, scientists have mapped 788 ...

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

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

Giant amphipod species Alicella gigantea, once thought to be very rare, is found to inhabit the majority of Earth's deep ...

Deep-sea mining trials revealed significant but localized biodiversity loss in one of the planet’s least explored ecosystems.

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

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

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists ...

Deep-sea creatures in the trenches of Japan’s volcanically active "Ring of Fire" belt are rapidly adapting to immense depths, scientists found. These observations were part of a crewed submersible ...

As you get closer to the bottom of the ocean, it gets darker, denser and stranger. All light from the surface has been absorbed, and only the most adapted species can navigate the lack of oxygen in ...