For decades, oceanographers have known that something did not add up in the deep sea. Huge predators like sharks and tunas ...

In the South China Sea, near the Paracel Islands, the aqua-colored waters of an expansive shallow reef platform suddenly ...

Giant amphipod species Alicella gigantea, once thought to be very rare, is found to inhabit the majority of Earth's deep ...

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and scientists think it could be an ecological haven. A new study describes a four ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with ...

Scientists have found microplastics speckling the waters of the Mariana Trench, known for being the deepest of any ocean trench, and at every level of the sea. The researchers published their findings ...

Far from the open ocean trenches, divers in a shallow Mexican bay have found a vertical portal into the unknown. The Taam Ja’ ...

Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea ...

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with the Southern Marine Science and Engineering ...

Stanford researchers have uncovered evidence that deep underwater earthquakes can spur the growth of massive phytoplankton ...

Half the planet lies outside any country’s border. In those waters, rules have long been thinner than the myths: freedom to ...