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

Scientists are a little closer to understanding what goes on deep beneath the surface of our oceans.

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and scientists think it could be an ecological haven. A new study describes a four ...

Scientists believe they have discovered at least 20 new species in a deep part of the Pacific Ocean. The discoveries were found after researchers from the California Academy of Sciences retrieved 13 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Scientists are buzzing after the discovery of a new predator nearly 8,000 meters below the ocean's surface.

There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the seabed. An international study, which has discovered large numbers of new ...

Researchers have unveiled two world-first deep-ocean landers designed to probe the origins of dark ...

A new study led by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), along with international partners, finds that ...

Deep under the Mediterranean Sea, researchers made a disturbing discovery in an unexplored canyon 1000 meters deep ...

A new study from the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa, published on November 6 in Nature Communications, provides the first direct evidence that waste from deep-sea mining could disrupt vital ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...