Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed ...
YouTube channel MetaBallStudios has shared a 3D animation demonstrating just how deep the sea is compared to different lakes and seas.
Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, ...
In 1917, a civil engineer pioneered the first deep-sea vehicle to attempt filming underwater. A century later, we have James ...
A newly discovered mechanism could explain the shock finding last year that oxygen is produced by metallic nodules on the ...
The mysterious deep sea creature the Greenland shark swims around in the 'midnight zone, and new footage has revealed it in ...
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Researchers have uncovered over 7,500 new microbial species in the hadal zone, highlighting the extreme environmental ...
The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...
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 ...