Imagine a world where sunlight never touches the ocean floor, where bizarre creatures drift through inky black waters, and ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

The ‘David Packard’ is named for the Silicon Valley pioneer who donated more than $1 billion to ocean research.

Brussels / Kiel. Led by Professor Dr Sylvia Sander of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, a group of internationally renowned marine scientists has published a Future Science Brief on ...

The researchers studied tissue from over 120 fish. They found that 50 to 60 percent of their diet came from ocean’s twilight zone sources. Bigeye tuna showed the most consistent deep-sea reliance.

The blobfish, often mocked for its unique appearance, has been named New Zealand's Fish of the Year after a dedicated ...

Scientists proved that the sea still holds some big mysteries after capturing footage of the colossal squid — the largest ...

Scientists say they've captured the first footage of a living colossal squid in the deep sea. The colossal squid ... It's so elusive, living in the deep ocean near Antarctica, that scientists ...

Their residence attracts shrimp, fish and many other creatures. These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of the ocean floor that scientists are only beginning to explore, discovering new ...

The colossal squid is the largest invertebrate on the planet, but it is also surprisingly elusive. An image of a 30-centimetre-long juvenile is our first glimpse of the animal in its natural habitat ...

A 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation claimed that by 2050 there would be 850 tons of plastic in the oceans and ...