Marine animals living in the cold, dark depths of the ocean are interconnected across the world by a hidden “superhighway”, a groundbreaking new study suggests. The research, published in the journal ...

It’s not uncommon for newly discovered species to make the news, especially when they are found 5,500 meters underwater. What ...

In 2024, researchers made a groundbreaking discovery in the Pacific Ocean's Clarion-Clipperton Zone, finding that oxygen increased over two days to more than three times the background concentration ...

The discovery of a strange deep-sea mollusc sparked a global naming effort online, with researchers finally choosing a species name meaning "of the people”. Scientists first discovered the deep-sea ...

The discovery of a strange deep-sea mollusc sparked a global naming effort online, with researchers finally choosing a species name meaning "of the people”. Scientists first discovered the deep-sea ...

When deep-sea explorers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute went on expedition off the coast of Argentina, they were amazed to see an enormous creature floating through the gloom: a giant phantom ...

In the deep sea, there are places where chemicals and nutrients seep out of the sediment and into the water. These chemosynthetics-based ecosystems were discovered in 1977, and in the decades since, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bottom dwellers have never been more spectacular. In a tiny, high-tech submersible sunk deeper than the height of Mount Everest, scientists have discovered a flourishing ecosystem some 30,000 feet ...

Thousands of meters below the ocean's surface lurk some gigantic creatures, much larger than their shallow-water brethren. Scientists have a few hunches for why this happens, but the debate continues.

The elusive deep-sea creature typically lives over 1,000 meters below sea level, but was seen around 250 meters below sea level Scientists filmed a rare giant phantom jellyfish off Argentina during a ...