An international study aimed at measuring the impact of mining critical metals from the seabed has found 788 species, many of them previously unknown, living at a depth of 4,000 metres in what the ...

This deep-sea ctenophore is about the size of a tennis ball and thrives two miles below the sea surface. Its scientific genus is Bathocyroe, which translates to “master of the deep.” University of ...

Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated Styrofoam cups. A couple dozen line the bookshelf of my office, each displaying a rainbow of Sharpie colors. Each cup is ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark, and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At ...

Scientists found a “flat” sea animal with 170 eyes at a rocky shore in Guangdong Province and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Liu, Lin, Wang, Hu and Zhang (2024) A team of ...

Humans tend to associate the ocean with silence. Yet water doesn’t mute sound, but amplifies it. Sound waves travel 4.3 times faster underwater than they do in the air and they retain their energy for ...