A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Iceberg A-84 broke off from Antarctica and revealed a thriving community of sea creatures underneath. Now, researchers are ...

DENVER — The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has a new exhibit exploring the depths of prehistoric oceans. Jurassic Oceans: ...

Deep beneath the South China Sea, researchers in China identified massive ... a Chinese mission successfully extracted samples of the frozen fossil fuel. If mined correctly for burning, flammable ...

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

Their fossils reveal striking similarities to their ... over the past 500 million years while floating through the deep sea in a beautifully coiled shell. It lacks intelligence like its modern ...

Due to the extreme conditions in the deep sea, its ecosystems and high biodiversity (made up mostly of small organisms living in the sediment) are particularly sensitive to disturbances.