Five hundred kilometers southeast of Tokyo, the seafloor sits under nearly six kilometers of water. No light reaches that depth. The temperature lingers just above freezing, and the pressure is ...

The world’s largest amphipod is not as rare as it was once believed to be, according to scientists. Scientists have long assumed the deep-sea Alicella gigantea was an uncommon survivor of the abyss.

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Deep beneath the ocean surface, where sunlight never reaches and food is scarce, vast gardens of deep-sea sponges are quietly ...

When we think of marine life, we usually picture colourful coral reefs or dense seaweed forests filled with fish and other ...

Given how underexplored the Pacific Ocean is, it is not surprising that new species are being discovered every time a manned or unmanned deep-water submersible is launched to document the species ...

As the race to explore the world's oceans intensifies, scientists are turning to powerful new battery technologies to overcome one of deep-sea exploration's greatest challenges: how to keep underwater ...

Therefore, it is no surprise that people have found some truly strange things when exploring them. From ancient statues to ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can’t reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

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