From deep sea ghost sharks to symbiotic worms and unusual crustaceans, scientists have identified 1,121 new marine species in ...

A large international team of marine researchers monitored the seafloor surrounding the corpse of a whale that had sunk 4,920 ...

Learn how the Ocean Census discovered 1,121 new marine species, from deep-sea “ghost sharks” to carnivorous sponges, while ...

Danielle Beurteaux takes us on a deep dive for SN. At a popular dive site off the coast of Brazil, scientists are testing high-precision underwater air guns to blast coral invaders off the map. Unlike ...

Eighty steel boxes, each roughly the size of a microwave oven, were lowered to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean between late ...

This worm lives inside a glass castle nearly half a mile beneath the sea. It’s not the kind of castle built with mortar and ...

The Ocean Census project says scientists have discovered 1,121 previously unknown species in a single year. The rush is on to ...

The deep sea is home to many different animals, some of which you may have never heard of before. One example is the ...

Orpheus Ocean of New Bedford, Massachusetts is building robotic vehicles to descend into extreme depths to collect data from the seafloor.

A new company is making waves in the world of deep-sea mining.

China’s largest offshore oil and gas producer is preparing to double its deep-water drilling capabilities as it targets ocean depths of 3,000 meters. China National Offshore Oil Corp. recently ...

An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the seafloor for manganese, nickel, cobalt and other minerals used in electric vehicles, solar panels and more. Meanwhile, ...