Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

The International Seabed Authority will convene in July to discuss this and other issues. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

The deep ocean is a vast reservoir of biodiversity that harbors unique species, communities, and ecosystems,” write the authors of a new study. We tend to think of the deep ocean as cold, dark, and ...

A newly discovered mechanism could explain the shock finding last year that oxygen is produced by metallic nodules on the seafloor – and it might be happening on other planets, too ...

A recent deep-sea expedition into the Tonga Trench in the ... The Pacific Sleeper Shark is a silent predator designed for the cold, dark depths of the ocean. These sharks can move quietly through ...

Environmentalists said the presence of dark oxygen showed just how little is known about life at these extreme depths, and supported their case that deep-sea mining posed unacceptable ecological ...

"Deep-sea discovery calls into question the origins of life," the Scottish Association for Marine Science said in a press release to accompany the publication of the research. Environmentalists said ...