For much of the twentieth century, a prevailing view in marine biology held that most major marine groups originated in ...

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it ...

A team of scientists announced Tuesday they have developed new deep-sea landers specifically to test their contentious ...

Startling findings in 2024 suggested that metallic nodules on the sea floor produce oxygen and might support life. Now ...

The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

Quick Take Achieving the first live photographs of a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale ended a 66-year mystery since the species ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated image provided by the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences shows tubeworms in ...

Deep-sea sediment layers show rare microbial wrinkle structures that formed in environments far beyond the reach of sunlight. Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University ...

Scientists discovered that deep-sea vents are tapping hydrogen from buried sediments, reshaping ideas about where ocean ...

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 ...

The deep sea is a distinctive environment, distinguished from surface waters by darkness, cold and immense pressures. Global data reveal how much more connected deep-sea life is than life in the ...

The deep sea, encompassing the vast, dark, and high-pressure regions beneath the ocean’s surface, is recognised as one of the most biodiverse yet underexplored ecosystems on our planet. Recent studies ...