In the South China Sea, off China’s Hainan Island, researchers dropped the carcass of a cow about 5,340 feet down to the ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

When we think of the ocean, what often comes to mind are familiar sights– coral reefs, fishing boats, and waves breaking along the shore. But just a few hundred metres below the surface, the ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

The deep ocean remains one of Earth’s last great frontiers — a pitch-black, high-pressure world where sunlight never reaches ...

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Our oceans are as remarkable as they are mysterious; the deep dark waters as foreign to us as far-reaching planets. Though ...

First Nations people started trading 'trepang', or sea cucumber, in the 1700s, and now these tiny marine animals may help ...

Researchers sequenced the knotty sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing a missing gene that many other animals ...

Scientists on the US West Coast say they discovered three previously unknown species of deep-sea spider that could have a rare diet fueled by a common greenhouse gas.

Long before the first dinosaur hatched, Earth's ancient life was already thriving. There were bizarre sea creatures and lumbering plant-eaters that ruled prehistoric landscapes for hundreds of ...