Four kilometres below the Southern Ocean surface is a strange world inhabited by even stranger creatures. In its autumn ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

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

Donald Trump’s administration is drafting an executive order to enable the stockpiling of metal found on the Pacific Ocean seabed, in an effort to counter China’s dominance of battery minerals and ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Brussels / Kiel. Led by Professor Dr Sylvia Sander of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, a group of internationally renowned marine scientists has published a Future Science Brief on ...

While this discovery could upend our understanding of how life started on Earth, the study also complicates negotiations ...

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

A hidden ecosystem of giant sea spiders, octopuses, and other stunning sea creatures shows how life can flourish even when ...

Exploratory deep-sea mining began in the 1970s ... potentially harming marine life and disrupting ecosystems. Picture a volcanic eruption—not of lava, but of fine, murky sediments expanding ...