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 ...

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 ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

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

The deep sea, a realm of perpetual darkness, crushing pressure, and cold temperatures, is home to some of the most unusual ...

Light shines through the water of a rocky cave in the deep sea. Ocean explorer Jon Copley has completed dozens of dives to the darkest corners of the deep sea. Yet he is still amazed every time he ...

The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

Scientists caution that unchecked mining could disrupt ocean food webs from the depths to dinner plates worldwide.

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 ...