The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

Diverse life forms exist on and within the ocean floor. These primarily consist of microbes, tiny organisms that can cope ...

Scientists are revolutionizing how new marine species are described through the Ocean Species Discoveries initiative. Using advanced lab techniques, researchers recently unveiled 14 new species from ...

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 ...

Scientists discovered a new crustacean species in the Atacama Trench, 8,000 meters deep, revealing the Hadal zone as a ...

Two tiny new species, a porcelain crab and a lantern shark, were discovered during a 2022 deep-sea expedition off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast in the Gascoyne Marine Park, recent research confir ...

There is still not enough known about the seafloor to decide if deep sea mining can start in the Cook Islands, government ...

New Carnivorous death ball sponge found by the ROV SuBastian at 3601 metres at the Trench North dive site, east of Montagu Island. A Media Snippet accompanying this announcement is available by ...

Scientists are speeding up the naming of deep-sea species before they vanish, using new tools to uncover life from below the ...

Scientists from Australia and Japan studying three trenches find ‘organisms have adapted strategies to filter things out of ...

In the past few years, people have become more and more interested in marine life– and it’s easy to see why. The ocean is ...

The aquarium says these "deep-diving" whales are a rare sight. Rare sighting alert!  Three True’s beaked whales were spotted by our Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life aerial... "People who maybe go ...