Nearly 4,000 m beneath the Pacific, in water so dark that sunlight has never penetrated, scientists have stumbled on a new ...

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Just in time for the hundreds of anglers about to hit coastal waters for the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo, a new smartphone app can provide up-to-date information about conditions on (and in) Mobile ...

Countries are still debating whether to mine the seafloor for minerals, but exploratory efforts have already begun.

These nodules can act like batteries that split seawater into hydrogen and oxygen In an unexpected twist, metal-rich nodules found on the seafloor are generating oxygen, new research suggests. This ...

A five-year-long investigation into how deep-sea mining impacts biodiversity has finally been published. View on euronews ...

For us land-dwellers, being crushed under several miles of ocean water wouldn’t end very well. But for a deep-sea dwelling ctenophore, also known as a comb jelly, being brought up to the surface can ...

Researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Nicknamed the 'mystery mollusc,' the nudibranch Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...