Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

What do you picture when you think of water? An icy, refreshing drink? A crystal-blue ocean stretching to the horizon ... without any streams to carry sediment into it. Deep waters like Crater Lake ...

Marine scientists who made headlines last year with their discovery that deep sea nodules could be producing “dark ... ocean with fresh data. Once again, the landers will seal off samples of ...

Deep beneath the ocean's surface, in the pitch-black abyss, scientists have uncovered a fascinating phenomenon: "dark oxygen ... This electric activity splits water molecules into hydrogen ...

In 1977 scientists discovered that at the deepest parts of the ocean, which people had long imagined to be dark, cold ... took the deep sea submersible Alvin to the Galápagos Rift near the ...

“The deep open ocean is a sensitive environment and changing ... “Many mesopelagic organisms vertically migrate into shallower water at night to feed in the more productive shallow waters.

Ventilation is an important process within the global ocean, where waters sink to deeper layers, are transported by deep currents, and eventually get upwelled back to the surface. This process affects ...

Marine biologists have snapped the first known near-surface photos of a monster-looking predator normally found in the ocean's deep, dark spaces. Scientists aboard the Condrik Tenerife ...