When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ...

The discovery, led by scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute in Palo Alto, California, revealed a previously unknown ecosystem lurking beneath the seabed. Using a remotely operated submersible, ...

While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, the machine’s camera captured a creature that appeared to be “all legs” walking across the seafloor, according to a March 18 ...

The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.

SINGAPORE, March 27 (Reuters) - A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said late on Wednesday, adding weight to calls ...

In the hidden corners of the ocean floor lived one of the most powerful hunters of the marine world — the pistol shrimp, a ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life ... potato-size nodules sitting on the ocean floor. Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet ...

The advent of sonar allowed for the first in-depth surveys of the deep ocean floor, and these studies drove geologists to finally accept a radical theory proposed decades earlier and dismissed for ...