BUENOS AIRES — Transparent-faced fish drift through dusky waters. Snow-like flecks of dead plants sift down from the world above. Soft sponges peek through the soot of the seafloor. Only occasional ...

Transparent-faced fish drift through dusky waters. Snowlike flecks of dead plants sift down from the world above. Soft sponges peek through the soot of the seafloor. Only occasional mutters among ...

The ocean is full of some incredibly odd creatures. It feels like the further you go down, the stranger and more alien-like ...

A world-first study conducted by the Museums Research Institute has discovered that marine life in the cold, dark, and ...

Scientists discovered thriving deep-sea communities powered by chemicals in ocean trenches over 31,000 feet deep.

Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a submersible to ...

Despite growing interest in deep-sea mining, much of the deep ocean, particularly the midwater zone, remains poorly understood. A 2023 study in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone found that 88% to 92% of ...

There's no evidence that deep-sea mining would prevent terrestrial mining. It's likely that both will occur, causing double destruction, rather than one taking the place of the other.

Mesopelagic fish, living hundreds of meters below the surface, play a quiet but powerful role in carbon cycling.

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

The underwater images are clear and fascinating. And Argentinians (and YouTube viewers around the world) can't get enough.