there are still major gaps in our knowledge of the deep-sea communities living on the sea floor—as clearly demonstrated by our new study." Led by Dr. Eva Ramirez-Llodra and Heidi K. Meyer from ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

Dark oxygen produced on the floor of the ocean is challenging ... was a paradigm shift in our understanding of the deep sea and potentially life on Earth, but it threw up more questions than ...

Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography descended thousands of meters where they likely discovered dozens of new animal species. Creatures flourish where methane gas seeps into the ocean ...

This World Oceans Day we are diving into the mysterious world of the deep ocean. For a long time scientists believed that life in the ocean depths was impossible. However, we now understand that ...

Massive quantities of microplastics lie on the deep ocean floor 500 kilometers off the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture, the highest level ever found on the seafloor anywhere, a group of ...

But deep-sea mining is controversial. Life thousands of feet below sea level tends to be slow-growing and fragile. Even small disruptions to the ocean floor can persist for decades, and scientists ...

The Nippon Foundation will work with the Scottish Association for Marine Science for conducting a study on "dark oxygen," which can be produced on the deep ocean floor where sunlight cannot penetrate.