Strange tracks have begun to appear on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, showing something big is emerging from the ocean in the ...

When scientists at Germany’s Senckenberg Natural History Museum asked the internet to help name a newly discovered deep-sea ...

This year, they’ve been spotted along the coasts of Washington and Oregon, although a majority of sightings so far have been ...

There's increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths isn't fully understood. A new review led by our scientists is giving us our ...

More than three miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in perpetual darkness and near-freezing temperatures, the ...

Darkness dominates most of the ocean. Sunlight fades quickly as you descend, and by the time you reach the deep sea, natural ...

Given how underexplored the Pacific Ocean is, it is not surprising that new species are being discovered every time a manned or unmanned deep-water submersible is launched to document the species ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with a sudden wave of volcanic sediment, leaving them suffocated. Four months ...

An entire world lives deep under the ocean’s surface, far from human notice and as bustling as any city. Animals such as tubeworms and clams live crowded around plumes of methane that bubble up ...