Scientists have shared footage from a rare sighting of a bluntnose sixgill shark spotted near the Phoenix Islands in the ...

Dozens of these otherworldly creatures may be entirely new to science, never before documented by humans. The images and ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

The robot has already ridden with two of China's most advanced crewed submersibles — Shenhai Yongshi, or Deep-Sea Warrior, ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

The International Seabed Authority will convene in July to discuss this and other issues. Read more at straitstimes.com.

It's no secret that the deepest corners of the ocean are home to some of the more peculiar looking creatures which inhabit our planet. Take the infamous 'demon fish' or the notoriously ugly blobfish ...

El Niño, a climate troublemaker, has long been one of the largest drivers of variability in the global climate. Every few ...

A team of Chinese scientists has developed a miniature 2.7-kilogram deep-sea robot to explore the deepest natural frontier on ...

The findings have come at a time when there has been a growing demand for establishing a moratorium on all deep sea mining ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...

A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...