First Nations people started trading 'trepang', or sea cucumber, in the 1700s, and now these tiny marine animals may help ...

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

Deep-sea crabs may look like armored oddities, but many species wield deadly claws, venom-laced defenses, and survival ...

It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

Researchers said they named the new species after the Nansei Islands near the Okinawa Trough where it was first discovered and, so far, the only area where it has been found. The Nansei Islands., also ...

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and ...

The deep sea is full of surprises, hiding creatures that look like they belong in a sci-fi movie rather than our oceans. These rare animals have adapted in incredible ways to live in a world of ...

A rarely spotted “supergiant” crustacean related to woodlice is actually a common inhabitant of the sea floor, a new study finds. The deep-sea creature, Alicella gigantea, which can grow up to ...

One study published in Science earlier this month found that with 44,000 deep-sea dives, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed — which is roughly the size of Yosemite ...

A rarely spotted “supergiant” crustacean related to woodlice is actually a common inhabitant of the sea floor, a new study finds. The deep-sea creature, Alicella gigantea, which can grow up to 34cm ...

In 2013, a deep-sea mining company named UK Seabed Resources contracted marine biologist Diva Amon and other scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to survey a section of the seafloor ...