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

The discovery of dark oxygen clearly has potential implications for the deep-sea mining industry. Deep-sea mining would ...

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

The blobfish is specially adapted to life in the deep ocean, but it looks like a shapeless blob when brought to the surface.

Crustaceans, snails, worms and fish are among the dozens of creatures that deep-sea explorers discovered under a massive ...

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

As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep ...

Life down there plays by a completely different set of rules, with creatures that have adapted in ways we can barely imagine.

Giant deep-sea spider spotted crawling on ocean floor near Antarctica - Researchers suspect species grows so large partly due ...

Hidden in the abyss of the Atacama Trench, Dulcibella camanchaca reveals itself as a unique predator adapted to the darkness.

Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, ...