Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

A clip of a deep sea oarfish washed up on a beach has circulated online, prompting false claims that its presence is a ...

Ten fish species competed for the 2025 Fish of the Year title. The blobfish won with 1,286 votes against the orange roughy’s ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

The blobfish, known for its unattractive appearance, has been declared New Zealand's Fish of the Year, altering public ...

A planned mining method to gather critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes higher up in the water column where many creatures live.

Some creatures have remained unchanged for millions of years, surviving drastic climate shifts and evolution. Meet 10 living ...

More information: Daniel O. B. Jones et al, Long-term impact and biological recovery in a deep-sea mining track, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08921-3 ...

Photographer David Jara Boguná filmed a humpback anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii, a species of black seadevil) swimming ...

“To tackle the crucial question of recovery from deep-sea mining, we need first to look to the past and use old mining tests to help understand long-term impacts,” says Professor Daniel Jones from the ...

Scientists surveying deep-sea life off an island in southeast Asia ... are a poorly known shark species first discovered at fish markets in Indonesia in the early 2000s, researchers said.