Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...

Deep-sea creatures exhibit gigantism, with football-sized eyes and van-sized sponges thriving in crushing darkness. These ...

A newly discovered predatory “death-ball” sponge in the Southern Ocean hunts small prey with tiny hooks, revealing surprising ...

The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, ...

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

With baseline data tracking 3,000 tonnes of polymetallic nodules at a depth of 4,280 metres, the study represents the largest ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists ...

One of the most attractive targets for deep sea mining advocates is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a continent-sized ...

Deep-sea creatures often look like they stepped off a sci-fi set, with wild shapes, glowing body parts, and features that ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies to date, and peer-reviewed results have ...

When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only the surface. Venture deeper, far below the last reach of sunlight, and you ...