New research shows how deep-sea fish evolved unique body shapes depending on depth and habitat, revealing surprising ...
The deep sea is an enigmatic, alien world. But every year, scientists make discoveries about the ocean's depths that help to fill in parts of the puzzle, and this year was no different. From gigantic ...
Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...
A new study finds that deep-sea mining waste in the ocean’s twilight zone could disrupt food webs and starve midwater ...
In the inky depths of the Central Pacific Ocean, nearly 2,400 meters below the surface, scientists have discovered a new ...
An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living ...
Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...
Fish species living in the deep sea feature a surprisingly large range of body shapes that evolved in different ways and at ...
A Chinese team has become the first to explore theeastern Gakkel Ridge, an underwater volcanic chain buried beneath the ...