Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

While exploring ancient seabeds in Morocco, scientists discovered strange wrinkle-like textures in deep-water sediments that shouldn’t have been there. These structures are usually made by ...

The deep sea is a dark, cold place. It's just a few degrees above freezing, subject to immense pressure, and beyond the reach ...

The ocean is home to some of the strangest-looking creatures in the world. It seems that the deeper you go, the stranger the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A research team led by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered extraordinary deep-sea life in one of the ...

The most transformative deep sea finding in a generation is not a single strange animal or a record-breaking trench, but proof that the abyss is a vast, living engine that rewrites what I think life ...

Deep beneath the ocean's surface, a groundbreaking DNA study reveals that the deep sea is far more globally connected than once thought. By analyzing thousands of brittle stars preserved in museum ...

Underwater earthquakes in Antarctica can trigger massive phytoplankton blooms, linking deep-sea seismic activity to ocean ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

Far below the Pacific, a volcano long written off as geologically dead has turned out to be both active and teeming with life. When researchers sent cameras into its crater, they did not find bare ...