The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

uncover evidence of burrowing and feeding activity of these deep-sea dwellers. The Hadal Zone is the deepest part of the ocean, located at depths of over 6 km, and consists of long, narrow ...

Researchers have uncovered over 7,500 new microbial species in the hadal zone, highlighting the extreme environmental ...

Deep-sea mining may irreparably harm ocean ecosystems before we even have a chance to fully study its impacts. That's one reason the Center has taken a lead role against deep-sea mining. We're ...

For the first time, a deep sea angler fish was spotted last week in ... "Emerging from the abyssal depths in vertical swimming, off just 2 km from the coast of Tenerife and during one of our ...

A growing controversy is swirling around deep-sea mining, which aims to extract valuable minerals from the ocean floor. In July, the UN-affiliated International Seabed Authority (ISA) will start ...

“We found that a cascade of traits, including those required for sexual parasitism, allowed anglerfishes to invade the deep sea during a period of extreme global warming when the planet’s oceans were ...

A Spanish shark research organisation says it may have captured the first footage of a rare deep-sea creature swimming in the light of day. David Jara Boguñá, a photographer on an expedition ...

The Kexue, seen in 2019, is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition. (Zhang Jinggang/Imaginechina/AP ...