Despite crushing pressure, total darkness and near-freezing temperatures, researchers found an underwater world teeming with ...

The most transformative deep sea finding in a generation is not a single strange animal or a record-breaking trench, but ...

(CNN) — Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed.

Scientists have discovered a 300-year-old giant black coral off New Zealand. Its massive size and age reveal hidden deep-sea ...

A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the ...

These episodes of sudden light deprivation are slowly making several underwater organisms vulnerable to collapse.