New research shows how deep-sea fish evolved unique body shapes depending on depth and habitat, revealing surprising ...

A new study finds that deep-sea mining waste in the ocean’s twilight zone could disrupt food webs and starve midwater ...

A rare Indian octopus squid, Taningia silasii, has been discovered in the Arabian Sea, marking a significant find for ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

The deep-sea's midnight zone, a realm of crushing pressure and absolute darkness, harbors extraordinary creatures. These ...

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 ...

Learn all about the fascinating discovery of three deep-sea species, found off the coast of California, including the cute ...

An aquarium worker here has created an affordable, compact pressurized container that can restore the health of deep-sea fish ...

Scientists have found microbial traces in deep-sea blue volcanic mud, offering crucial insights into how life may thrive in ...

In recent weeks, TikTok has been joking and/or weeping over the fate of the Bathypterois grallator, or the tripod fish. It got its name for its adult stage of life, during which it grows three long ...

At the bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an ...

An ambitious mission aims to protect one of the Mediterranean’s last great frontiers: Caprera Canyon, a vast underwater valley off Sardinia’s coast.