In 1917, a civil engineer pioneered the first deep-sea vehicle to attempt filming underwater. A century later, we have James ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms with a calcareous shell. They not only provide evidence of past habitats, but ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

Debris produced by human activity has now been spotted at a depth of 5,112 meters (3.2 miles) in the Mediterranean Sea.

There's one. And another. This robot was hunting for rocks. A three-pronged claw descended from above and plucked a stone off ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. It’s not exactly inconspicuous, the approximately three-foot cube that, for years, has been an essential prop in ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface lies a world of perpetual darkness, home to some of Earth’s most bizarre and fascinating ...

Something unusual is happening in the oceans. Strange deep-sea creatures are surfacing, and marine life is behaving ...

A humpback anglerfish, usually found deep underwater, was filmed near the surface. The amazed scientists and sparked online ...

One person described the fish as her “feminist Roman Empire”, in the sense of an inspirational obsession that filled the same ...

Footage of a submersible capturing some intriguing footage of a pre-historic sea animal has resurfaced, as it was making its ...