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

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Far below the waves of the Pacific, scientists are uncovering a riot of life just as industrial machines line up to scrape ...

Scientists filmed a squid covering itself in mud and holding its tentacles upright, using camouflage that helps it hide on the ocean floor.

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Photographers capture mutant crayfish, cleaning fish, and synchronized whales in this year's top underwater contests.

A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, plastic-eating microbes and compounds that could one day make medicines.

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