A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it ...

We opened a window into our country’s biodiversity only to find there are so many more windows left to be opened.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A research team led by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered extraordinary deep-sea life in one of the ...

We were not expecting to see this level of biodiversity in the Argentine deep sea, and are so excited to see it teeming with ...

More than a century after it sank, the RMS Titanic continues to change in ways that are not only structural but also ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

The ocean is home to some of the strangest-looking creatures in the world. It seems that the deeper you go, the stranger the ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

Deep-sea researchers have launched a groundbreaking project to investigate "dark oxygen"—a form of oxygen produced in total darkness on the ocean floor. The initiative follows last year's discovery of ...