Picture this: vast underwater mountains hiding creatures that seem ripped from science fiction, animals that create their own ...

An expedition records 29,556 animals in the abyssal trenches and reveals how they survive the pressure and total darkness.

The deep ocean is home to the largest ecosystem on Earth, but we’ve only explored a tiny portion of it. Despite the enormity ...

Look no further than the depths of earth’s oceans to discover mind-blowing creatures that look like they come from another ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

New research shows how deep-sea fish evolved unique body shapes depending on depth and habitat, revealing surprising ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Animals living in one of ...

We turn now to the ocean with NPR's Short Wave podcast. This story plays out in the midnight zone, which is 1,000 to 4,000 meters below the surface... (SOUNDBITE OF SUBMARINE MOVING) MA: ...Even ...

The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts are under threat of being harmed in ways from which they may never recover.

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences on the tiny animals at the core of the vast ocean food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on ...