Despite crushing pressure, total darkness and near-freezing temperatures, researchers found an underwater world teeming with ...

When an underwater earthquake rattles deep below Antarctica’s icy waters, the motion may set off a chain reaction that causes ...

Scientists already knew that the pair of shallow coastal ocean dwellers keep very different schedules of downtime: The ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

Like a scene out of a Jules Verne novel, scientists from Schmidt Ocean Institute recently encountered a giant phantom jelly ...

The mid-ocean ridge runs through the oceans like a suture. Where Earth's plates move apart, new oceanic crust is continuously ...

A deep-sea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has begun in the Indian Ocean, reviving efforts to solve one of aviation’s ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

Climate change has many culprits, from agriculture to transportation to energy production. Now, add another: the deep ocean ...

An open-source whale tag that records sound, movement, and environmental data will enable scientists to study and decode ...

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

There was an era of horror and thriller cinema where animals like alligators and sharks attacking and killing humans had ...