By David Brown Plastic pollution could disrupt the bioluminescent light produced by deep-sea organisms, researchers warn in a ...

A deep-sea expedition off the coast of Argentina has yielded a remarkable scientific harvest. After analysing samples ...

More than 700 people attended the event, learning more about the least-explored ecosystem on the planet and the researchers ...

Film-maker Eleanor Mortimer accompanies a scientific expedition to the deep Pacific, where new creatures are abundant yet threatened by sea mining ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected source of food in the deep ocean that could change how researchers understand both marine ecosystems and Earth’s carbon cycle. A new study from the University ...

New sediment tests from a research vessel in the Red Sea suggest that primordial deep-sea microbes may offer a glimpse of how life made energy before Earth had oxygen.

A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of the deep sea, marine life is far more globally connected than previously ...

As anyone who’s stayed up well past their bedtime knows, catching a taxi or Uber home can be a godsend, and now recent research shows that even some deep sea animals appreciate the value of bumming a ...

Many deep-sea species are thought to have evolved from shallow-water ancestors, making their adaptations critical to marine biology research. Using innovative in situ sampling and fixation techniques, ...

Scientists discovered a giant underwater mountain. And it's teeming with deep sea life. An endeavor aboard the Falkor (too) — a 363-foot (111-meter) research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...