The contents of three large metal cases have changed our understanding of life under the ocean. Inside were vials of sediment ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

A first-of-its-kind global assessment has revealed 603 wild animals plus five livestock taxa that do more than just inhabit ...

Scientists explore Lost City, in the Atlantic, where chemical reactions in hydrothermal vents could explain the origin of ...

If you haven't seen the story of the tiny black seadevil anglerfish who swam to the surface to see light before dying yet then congratulations because you ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

Scientists reached the bottom of the Red Sea and what they found was startling. If you thought we had collectively searched most of the sea as a human race, you’d be wrong. In fact, only five percent ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

Another deep-sea dweller washed up on a Carlsbad beach this week and its body now joins millions of other rare specimens being preserved for research at a lab in San Diego.

Dark oxygen, a newly identified form of oxygen, raises questions about life in extreme environments and its implications for ...

Scientists found deep-sea shrimp evolved special vision to detect bioluminescent light and navigate their world.

Scientists capture a black sea devil anglerfish near Spain's Canary Islands, marking the first-ever daylight sighting of this deep-sea predator.