Glass sponges create deep-sea habitats for other organisms much like coral reefs do in shallower waters. The team turned up some of its most bizarre finds in dark ocean expanses between seeps and ...

Analysis of the sediment in Belize’s Great Blue Hole shows a concerning trend. Blue holes, the name for collapsed limestone ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of pulling up sulfide deposits. What would soon become unclear, however, was why ...

Beneath the sparkling blue waves of the Pacific lies a hidden world teeming with biodiversity, wonder, and weirdness. At Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, visitors ...

In the vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, finding the precise area in the deep sea where young sharks are born and grow – a ...

A 125-mile string of tropical coral islands linked by bridges that ... it's possible to see many stars and deep-sea objects usually only seen from the Southern Hemisphere. The perfect location ...

A new initiative is testing the use of underwater drones and artificial reefs in marine conservation at the Ayia Napa marina.

The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), located in the Republic of Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean, is the largest ...

When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ...

Many animals can glow in the dark. Fireflies famously blink on ... Still other animals use light as a beacon to find mates. Many deep-sea soft coral species light up briefly when bumped ...

Vast gorgonian sea fans waft slowly back and forth in the ... introduction to a week of deep, dark and dirty diving to this ghost fleet. It is never less than exhilarating to descend through ...