Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales are surprisingly voracious hunters, diving hundreds of meters beneath the Pacific to ...

Rare footage of a bigfin squid captured by a ROV deployed 11,000 feet deep in the Tonga Trench. Credit: Deep Sea Research ...

Discover the bizarre and fascinating creatures inhabiting the ocean's dark depths. From the ear-finned Dumbo Octopus to the ...

Biggest Ocean Mysteries Scientists Can't Explain: 25 Facts That Are Surprisingly Scientifically Proven: The deep sea is ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

The twilight zone hosts a diversity of life - including tiny krill, fish, squid, octopus and gelatinous species such as jellyfish.

A carnivorous "death-ball" sponge has been declared one of the oddest finds made during a deep-sea expedition near Antarctica ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

A new study finds that deep-sea mining waste in the ocean’s twilight zone could disrupt food webs and starve midwater ...

The first explored the South Sandwich Islands, where active tectonic activity and methane vents create warm, chemical-rich pockets of life. The second took scientists to the Bellingshausen Sea — an ...

The largest squid species in the world is the colossal squid. Read about where it is found, what it eats, and how big it can ...

A new University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa study has found that more than half of the zooplankton forming the ocean’s food building ...