They range from tiny worms in the muddy sediment ... said the test followed an CIA plot to recover a Russian nuclear ...

A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...

This new species of annelid worm was found in deep sea sediments near methane seeps off the Pacific coast of central America. Anguillosyllis have an interesting evolutionary placement within Syllidae ...

Marine ecologist Dr Laetitia Gunton MRSB on life in the remote waters of the Southern Ocean Marine ecologist Dr Laetitia Gunton studies deep-sea annelid worms. She is currently based at the Australian ...

Separately, the researchers also developed a soft gripper, which can be attached to a rigid robot. It was tested in the South ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

The discovery of dark oxygen has shifted our understanding of the deep sea and potentially life on Earth. But we still don’t ...