The deep ocean is a weird universe of jellyfish and their relations, sometimes forming chains many feet long, ... Although it may lack the aesthetic thrill of deep sea biology ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

Mr. Blobby thrust his species into the spotlight when he won the ugliest animal award in 2013, but scientists know very little about the mysterious deep-sea blobfish.

Science News: The deep ocean, covering most of Earth, remains largely unexplored, with only 0.001% visually studied. It regulates climate, harbors unique ecosystems ...

In the past, scientists thought of the deep ocean as a cold, dead place. While the region—generally considered to be everything between 200 and 11,000 meters in depth—is undoubtedly cold, it ...

Much of our affect on the deep-sea occurs within the first 1000 meters of the water column. But the average depth of the ocean just less than 4,000 meters so we are even barely aware of the extent of ...

“Ocean,” now on view on the coast of Denmark, fuses past with present, and art with science to raise urgent questions about our relationship with the sea. By A.J. Goldmann Reporting from ...

Deep-sea mining is not a distant threat—it’s a clear and present danger. The ISA has already issued mining exploration contracts covering a staggering 1 million square kilometers (400,000 ...