We know surprisingly little about the deep ocean or the strange creatures that live there. These unusual animals have evolved ...

Now, two new species found around the black smoker chimneys of the Hydra and Falkor hydrothermal vent fields have been ...

the color appears dark in the deep waters and helps the squid hide from predators. During the day the strawberry squid swims around in the twilight zone of the Atlantic Ocean in a range of about ...

A three-foot-long Antarctic gonate squid was spotted swimming 7,000 feet below the surface of the Southern Ocean ...

How deep does the ocean go ... largely inundated by a single global ocean. Practically, however, it's a lot easier to anchor around phrases like "North Atlantic" or "South Pacific" as opposed ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience found evidence of oxygen production near polymetallic nodules located deep in the ocean. Called dark oxygen, this oxygen is being produced ...

Humans have drilled a record-breaking 1,268 meters (4,160 feet) into Earth’s mantle, gifting scientists with an extraordinary glimpse into the planet’s deep geology – and possibly the ...

The study, titled "Deep ocean cooling and freshening from Subpolar North Atlantic reaches Subtropics at 26.5°N," was published March 26, 2025, in the journal Nature Communications, Earth ...

However, when he measured elevated oxygen levels at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in 2013 ... they report that two strains of deep-sea bacteria can reduce nitrate to ammonia, a process that seems to ...

Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometers off the coast of Guinea-Bissau in west Africa. The massive underwater ...

Mining activity could negatively affect the seafloor ecosystem, scientists warn. Rare metals on deep sea and ocean floors miles below the surface produce "dark oxygen," and mining these minerals ...