Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.

Armed with lab equipment and two months of food and clothes, around 60 researchers boarded the RSV Nuyina icebreaker ship for ...

The new species were found in the East China Sea, a body of water off the eastern coast of China, south of Japan and South ...

Some of the world’s most fascinating creatures live underwater. And unlike the more mainstream animals under the sea — ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Between 252 and 66 million years ago, the ocean underwent a revolution. That's when plankton with calcium carbonate skeletons ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean and found that all species contained the ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface lurk creatures more terrifying than anything you’ve ever imagined — including the world’s ...

Also known as the red devil, the Humboldt squid is a powerful animal, and not even a suit of chainmail can withstand its raw ...

Now he’s eyeing the global seabed that holds vast troves of critical metals for green technologies but is controlled by a United Nations-affiliated organization. Trump may be unlikely to gain dominion ...

A recent video from the South Atlantic Ocean captured bizarre, pigtail-like parasites clinging to a deep-sea rattail fish at ...

In a video shared by The Associated Press, squid researcher from the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, Dr.