The Gloucester vessel sank off Cape Ann on Jan. 30, killing all seven crew members. Six bodies remain unrecovered as harsh weather and deep water complicate search efforts.
In January 2025, a deep-sea camera captured a sleeper shark cruising 490 meters below the surface in Antarctic waters — the ...
A skate appears in frame motionless on the seabed and seemingly unperturbed by the passing shark. The skate, a shark relative that looks like a stingray, was no surprise since scientists already knew ...
The southern sleeper shark is a large, slow-moving species of deepwater shark typically found across the Southern Ocean from central Chile to the sub-Antarctic Islands. While it is well adapted to ...
Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...
Discovered 3,600 meters below the Southern Ocean, this carnivorous sponge traps live prey in a first-of-its-kind survival ...
Sinking clumps of dead ocean life have been shown to leak up to half their carbon and more than half their nitrogen when ...
It’s part of the scenario in “The Day After Tomorrow,” but scientists differ over whether or how fast it may occur. A team ...