Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of ...

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...

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

Scientists have captured photos of litter at the bottom of the Calypso Deep, a trench 16,771ft (5,112m) below the surface of ...

Antelope Canyon, Arizona Antelope Canyon is a photographer’s dream with its winding sandstone formations that play with sunlight in the most mesmerizing ways. These narrow passageways have been carved ...

In the past few months, multiple oarfish have mysteriously washed up along the California coast, fueling intrigue about these deep-sea creatures. In August, a 12-foot-long oarfish was discovered ...

Cosmic origins: Beryllium-10 is produced in the upper atmosphere and eventually incorporated into ferromanganese crusts in the deep ocean. Around 10 million years ago, the amount deposited in these ...

This rare deep-sea creature can grow up to 13 feet long. Its elongated jaws, lined with needle-like teeth, can snap forward to seize prey, earning it a firm spot among the ocean’s most terrifying ...

Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...

In order for beaches to creep nearly a mile into a body of water, there would need to be tides, standing water, and rivers feeding sediment into the ocean over a long period. A topographical view ...