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

Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've ...

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 ...

SINKER is an innovative new instrument equipped with advanced microscopes and cameras to collect detailed data about carbon ...

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

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 ...

Beneath the waves of the high seas, beyond the national borders of any country, lies the deep seabed. Known in international ...

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 ...

A research team from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Documentation provides one of the most detailed observations of seafloor biodiversity and habitats at these depths ...