A gigantic iceberg cracked off Antarctica on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen daylight in decades. Researchers decided to search the seafloor under the freshly exposed ocean. What ...

It’s the kind of event that when it happens, you leave whatever you’re doing,” said Patricia Esquete, the expedition’s chief scientist.

The blobfish is specially adapted to life in the deep ocean, but it looks like a shapeless blob when brought to the surface.

The discovery of dark oxygen has shifted our understanding of the deep sea and potentially life on Earth. But we still don’t ...

The ecosystem is home to seamounts, hydrothermal vents, deep-sea trenches and species found only in its freezing water. They are called the South Sandwich Islands, and researchers with the Schmidt ...

Once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," the blobfish – scientific name Psychrolutes marcidus – has been named New Zealand's ...

Separately, the researchers also developed a soft gripper, which can be attached to a rigid robot. It was tested in the South ...

Recognised as the finest wreck diving in the world, over more than 80 years, they have become a symphony of steel and ...

Xystodesmus fasciatus, with up to 19 segments, was discovered in a Japanese cedar forest on the Satsuma peninsula and is named for its “vividly banded” body made up of alternating “pale-greyish” and ...

Photographer David Jara Boguna filmed a rare Humpback Anglerfish, or Black Seadevil, typically found in deep-sea darkness and ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?