In the frigid waters originally hidden below, scientists discovered what appear to be new species of crustaceans, fish and ...

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Brussels / Kiel. Led by Professor Dr Sylvia Sander of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, a group of internationally renowned marine scientists has published a Future Science Brief on ...

Recently, the "Mingyuan Project" has have found that most of them are actually mollusks and do not have a hard shell. Through identification, the team of scientists discovered that 89.4% of the 7564 a ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 ...

Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of ...

The newfound ecosystem is filled with sea crabs, octopuses and gigantic sponges, suggesting it may have been thriving for ...

The researchers studied tissue from over 120 fish. They found that 50 to 60 percent of their diet came from ocean’s twilight ...