The ocean is home to some of the strangest-looking creatures in the world. It seems that the deeper you go, the stranger the ...

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor.

About 5,000 species of crustaceans in the order Isopoda live in Earth’s oceans. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they all have two pairs of antennae, compound eyes, ...

In July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through the eyes of an underwater robot as they explored the Mar del Plata Canyon.

The scientists examined the lineages of two groups of bivalves—marine invertebrates that include clams, oysters, mussels, and ...

A photographer captured this extraordinary site where whales' bodies lie in the shallows, with troubling repercussions for the deep oceans.

The deep ocean covers most of the planet. Gerard Barron wants his company to be the first to mine it. That's been his dream since 2001, when Barron's then-tennis partner asked him to invest in a first ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

A new study offers the first direct evidence that deep-dwelling mesopelagic fish, which account for up to 94% of global fish biomass, excrete carbonate minerals at rates comparable to shallow-water ...