People have lived in Big Sky Country for a little more than 10,000 years. But living things creeped and crawled and swam ...

Without the ocean, life on Earth would not have even been possible. All life originally came from the sea and it was roughly 1 billion years after life first appeared that the first land-dwelling ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Scientists on a research expedition in the Southern Ocean captured the first footage of a living Gonatus antarcticus squid. The colorful, three-foot squid species was only known to scientists ...

Commissioned in late 2024, Meng Xiang is a 560-foot, 42,600-ton ship with a 36,000 ft deep-sea drill capacity. It can stay at sea for 120 days, house 180 personnel, and includes nine cutting-edge ...

In this episode, I take you deep into Tokyo’s legendary fish markets to uncover one of the most bizarre sea creatures I’ve ever encountered—a giant sea snail that looks straight out of a sci ...

Trace metals such as iron or zinc that are stored in deep-sea sediments are lost forever to phytoplankton on the ocean surface. This is what geochemists believed for a long time about the cycle of ...

An elusive deep-sea squid species was caught on camera for the first time ever in a major breakthrough. National Geographic, on June 10, revealed the "history-making sighting" of a massive, three ...

Green Minerals (GEM), a Norwegian deep-sea mining firm, said Wednesday it bought four bitcoin BTC $107,954.52 ...

Deep-sea mining Deep-sea mining is the process of extracting minerals from cobalt and manganese-rich crusts and rocky deposits called polymetallic nodules, which lie on the ocean floor in depths of ...

These are still early days. Current thinking is that the deep sea could supply some of the metals powering modern technological innovations, including those in the green energy transition. However ...