A “gigantic” and rare deep sea creature first discovered in the 1800s, could inhabit up to 59% of the world’s deep oceans ...

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“When the first results came in, we realized that we had literally struck gold,” Nils Messling, a geochemist at Göttingen ...

A deep-sea training and engineering dive off the coast of San Diego provided an opportunity for never-before-seen imagery of ...

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The deepest ice core ever drilled in the Americas — reaching 613 meters — has been pulled from the Müller Ice Cap on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut by ...