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

This video explores the unique “meta” of the deep sea, where survival depends on extreme adaptations and unorthodox ...

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

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

Fish species living in the deep sea feature a surprisingly large range of body shapes that evolved in different ways and at ...

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 our plates.

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

An analysis of mining plumes in the Pacific Ocean reveals they kick up particles sized similarly to the more nutritious tidbits that plankton eat.

At the bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an ...

An international research team led by Dr. Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and ...

Great white sharks have long stood in our collective imagination as the ultimate predator in our oceans. These sizable sharks ...

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