Under-sea mountains are key locations for predators -- with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

For years, ocean exploration has been largely dominated by automated systems and remote-operated vehicles (ROVs), but the DSMV promises to revolutionise how humans interact with the deep sea. By ...

The animals are not aliens, but giant pile worms, large marine worms that are typically found on the seafloor, but will swarm ...

NEW YORK -- A neutrino detector submerged in the Mediterranean Sea has sniffed out the most energetic ghost particle yet, scientists reported Wednesday. The newly detected neutrino is around 30 times ...

[New Paper] Meet Delectopecten thermus, a new species of Glass Scallop from a deep-sea hot vent in Okinawa Trough, Japan! We ...

As the rumor goes, an oceanic area off the Western coast of Mexico is a "Jacuzzi of Despair," a pool of oceanic water that kills anything that enters it. A January 2025 Reddit pos ...

Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...

New research has revealed that a hairy crustacean—dubbed "The Hoff crab" when it was discovered in 2010—is the first species ...

With a total of 488 distinct animal species, it's the highest biodiversity count ever recorded in a single vent region.

Katrina Twing, a professor of microbiology at Weber State University, was invited to speak at a conference of Japan Trump ...

Discovered by scientists in 2000, more than 700 meters (2,300 feet) beneath the surface, the Lost City Hydrothermal Field is the longest-lived venting environment known in the ocean. Nothing else like ...

The veteran HOV can now officially dive deeper into the sea, broadening the horizons of scientific discoveries under the ...