Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...
A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...
Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...
The mission was part of Challenger 150, a UNESCO-endorsed global initiative for deep-sea research. The discoveries were ...
Kennedy: Deep-sea corals and sponges are ecosystem engineers in the environment. Deep-sea communities play an important role in increasing nutrients concentration in deep water, which is one of ...
A large sponge, a cluster of anemones, and other life seen nearly 230 meters deep beneath what was once Antarctic ice. Credit ...
The deep-sea, covering more than 60% of the Earth's surface, is a realm of mystery. It hosts a diverse range of geological features, which are all subject ...
The deep seafloor showed a flourishing ecosystem, and the team believes they may have discovered several new species during their research.
Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...
China has begun construction of a deep-sea research platform in Guangzhou ... studies of cold-seep ecosystems — unique biological communities that thrive in darkness and under extreme pressure ...