In 1917, a civil engineer pioneered the first deep-sea vehicle to attempt filming underwater. A century later, we have James ...

The mysterious deep sea creature the Greenland shark swims around in the 'midnight zone, and new footage has revealed it in ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the marine ...

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...

Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by "sound science" and built on consensus, the head of the ...

Hidden in the abyss of the Atacama Trench, Dulcibella camanchaca reveals itself as a unique predator adapted to the darkness.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University along with multiple collaborating institutions including the University of Copenhagen and ...

Footage of a submersible capturing some intriguing footage of a pre-historic sea animal has resurfaced, as it was making its ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...

The first phase of the MEER research was a joint effort of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Institute of Deep-sea Science ...

RECENT discoveries have identified 866 new marine species, including sharks, lobsters, corals, and deep-sea sponges, as part ...