The deep sea is a unique "evolutionary engine," with one of the richest and most unexplored sources of genetic diversity on ...
Scientists have unearthed communities of marine life — including jellyfish, tubeworms and brittle stars — thriving on a ...
The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.
The first published live observations of the rare goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) in its natural deep-ocean habitat were ...
On the flip side, a new paper in Cell shows how supergiant deep-sea animals can survive for as long as five years without ...
Researchers from the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in ...
Scientists say most of the ocean remains unexplored, raising concerns as climate change and seabed mining reshape marine ...
Learn how likely new Arctic deep-sea species could help researchers map fragile sponge gardens and hydrothermal vents before ...
Scientists warn deep-sea mining recovery depends on habitat, and some losses in vents and seamounts may be irreversible.
The Trump administration plans to scrap a $368-million investment in deep-sea ocean monitoring that is critical to monitoring ...
The Trump administration will dismantle a $368 million monitoring system that provides critical data on the world’s oceans, ...