Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

Underwater earthquakes in Antarctica can trigger massive phytoplankton blooms, linking deep-sea seismic activity to ocean ...

The deep sea is a dark, cold place. It's just a few degrees above freezing, subject to immense pressure, and beyond the reach ...

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

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 ...

While exploring ancient seabeds in Morocco, scientists discovered strange wrinkle-like textures in deep-water sediments that shouldn’t have been there. These structures are usually made by ...

Deep beneath the ocean's surface, a groundbreaking DNA study reveals that the deep sea is far more globally connected than once thought. By analyzing thousands of brittle stars preserved in museum ...

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 ...

Sometimes, real life is stranger than fiction, a fact made clear during the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Seascape Alaska 5 expedition in August 2023. While on the deep ocean ...

As the world’s need for new technology increases, so do practices that are harmful to the environment. Deep-sea mining is used to find metal-rich deposits, such as copper, nickel, cobalt, and gold.