Our oceans are as remarkable as they are mysterious; the deep dark waters as foreign to us as far-reaching planets. Though ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

The deep ocean remains one of Earth’s last great frontiers — a pitch-black, high-pressure world where sunlight never reaches ...

Researchers said they named the new species after the Nansei Islands near the Okinawa Trough where it was first discovered ...

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

Scientists on the US West Coast say they discovered three previously unknown species of deep-sea spider that could have a rare diet fueled by a common greenhouse gas.

5 deep-sea creatures that look straight out of an Alien movie The deep sea is full of surprises, hiding creatures that look like they belong in a sci-fi movie rather than our oceans.

The Trump administration wants to move ahead with deep sea mining. A mosaic of exotic creatures are at stake ...

What lies beneath: Interactive graphic reveals the creatures and shipwrecks that lurk in the deep sea - as study reveals we still don't know what's hiding on 99.999% of the ocean floor ...

Most terrifying deep-sea creatures ever found as scientists reveal they’ve explored only 0.001% of ocean floor One creature even has serrated teeth in its throat ...