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 ...

What's more inaccessible than the deep sea? A deep sea blanketed in a thick shell of ice. Yet during a daunting October 2021 mission called the HACON project, a group of over two dozen scientists and ...

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

Scientists just explored the realm of octopi. They returned with discoveries. On a deep sea expedition off of Costa Rica, researchers used a robotic submersible to capture footage of previously ...

The deep sea is home to weird and wonderful creatures that, over millions of years, have evolved specific traits to survive the extreme conditions of their habitat. These adaptations to their ...

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

A dangerous underwater cave, rough seas, a failed rescue mission and a military diver's death turned a scientific trip in the ...

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

“For nodule mining, some simple scientific steps would help to resolve the risk of biodiversity loss, which is still mostly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most ...

Scientists explored deep ocean canyons using environmental DNA from water samples and found over 200 new species.