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 ...

Four thousand metres below the surface lies a mysterious and alien world with a staggering diversity of strange creatures.

FOUR SCIENTISTS, aflutter with discovery, announced that they were the first to film two rare squid species alive, in their natural environments.  They ...

In the summer of 2022, a team of deep-sea researchers spent six weeks in the North Atlantic Ocean, revisiting the remains of ...

Explore your creativity and curiosity at the Australian National Maritime Museum these school holidays with a jam-packed program of exciting ...

What's at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and how do we know? How deep does the ocean go? We'll answer these questions and more in this deep dive into the world's oceans. Come on in: The water's ...

These findings underscore the importance of furthering independent deep-sea scientific research across the global ocean in order to inform deep-ocean policy. The ISA is still negotiating with key ...

open image in gallery Large sponge, a cluster of anemones, and other life is seen nearly 230 meters deep at an area of the seabed (Schmidt Ocean Institute) One of the images released by the ...

The increased buoyancy of the ocean also allows deep-dwelling organisms to defy gravity and grow larger compared to their land-based cousins, researchers say. “The buoyancy of ocean life means ...

Hurricane Fabian, it turns out, delivered as much sediment to the deep ocean in just two weeks as would normally take a full year to accumulate. These sediments—carbonate-rich material that ...