Focusing on an area off the coast of Crescent City, California, the researchers used autonomous and remotely operated ...

China has successfully tested its first domestically developed robot capable of conducting three-dimensional drilling ...

CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — Some four miles off the Southern California coast, a company is betting it can solve one of ...

Scientists discovered that deep-sea vents are tapping hydrogen from buried sediments, reshaping ideas about where ocean ...

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

The deep sea also harbours some of the most intriguing and alien-like species in existence, yet for several centuries, these ...

For more than 60 years, the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) was one of the ocean’s greatest mysteries.

An ancient shark older than forests still glides through deep oceans today. Its strange teeth, slow life cycle, and ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

Bone-eating zombie worms vanished from Pacific canyons during a 10-year study, raising concerns that oxygen loss is altering the deep ocean.