Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

Researchers and crewmembers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor (too), "seized upon the moment" and were richly ...

A U.K. startup wants to be the SpaceX of the deep sea, and hopes to establish a permanent human residence on the ocean floor ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

This remote archipelago is a dreamy base for adventure, with backcountry ski slopes reached by boat, hiking trails that offer ...

Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology ...

Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

A team of marine scientists has uncovered what appears to be a previously unknown species of sea squirt during a deep-sea ...