When scientists at Germany’s Senckenberg Natural History Museum asked the internet to help name a newly discovered deep-sea creature, more than 8,000 suggestions poured in. The tiny mollusk in ...

Far below the waves of the Pacific, scientists are uncovering a riot of life just as industrial machines line up to scrape the seabed for metals. Hundreds of newly described animals, from delicate ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the deep sea. However, researchers still don't know very much about the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although most dissolved inorganic carbon fixation occurs at the ocean’s surface, some of that fixation budget originates from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers with the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Center found video of a deep-sea goblin shark in its natural environment in ...

A deep-sea creepy creature has been spotted alive for the first time in its natural habitat. Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have documented the first two live observations of the ...

More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...

Scientists have uncovered plastic pollution in one of Earth's most isolated environments, challenging the long-held belief ...