The shark was spotted in near-freezing waters, which most species can't withstand ...

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...

Some deep-sea fish may be able to see light in a different way from most other vertebrates, according to a new study. The ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare ...

Sediment containing rare earth was retrieved from ocean depths of 6,000 meters (about 20,000 feet) on a Japanese test mission ...

Sinking clumps of dead ocean life have been shown to leak up to half their carbon and more than half their nitrogen when exposed to the crushing pressure of the deep sea.

A massive underwater sinkhole off the coast of Mexico has swallowed every instrument scientists have lowered into it, and they still have no idea how far down it goes. The Taam ja’ Blue Hole, sitting ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study. The Axial Seamount is gonna blow, scientists say. The only ...