A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and mollusks nearly 10 kilometers (six miles) below sea level in the ...

Study finds marine creatures off southern Australia share close evolutionary links with species in North Atlantic on other ...

Scientists have filmed odd communities of life flourishing deeper in the ocean than ever before. The chemosynthesis-based ...

The ocean covers a staggering 71% of our planet, and yet, we've only explored less than 5% of its vast depths. The mysteries ...

Forget photosynthesis—these marine communities rely on chemosynthesis to survive in darkness, and under intense pressure.

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Scientists diving to astounding depths in two oceanic trenches in the northwest Pacific have ...

Three new types of spiders have been found in deep-sea habitats, far beyond the reach of sunlight, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A new study published today in Science Advances shows just how little we know about the deep sea. According to the research, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor—an area ...

The fish was found at 200 to 2,000 meters below the surface. At least 16 types of recently discovered deep-sea fish are among the darkest creatures ever found, according to a study published ...

In 2013, a deep-sea mining company named UK Seabed Resources contracted marine biologist Diva Amon and other scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to survey a section of the seafloor ...

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.