Life is beginning to return to deep-sea mining tracks in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, but full recovery may be impossible. The seabed, cleared of metal-rich nodules in 1979, still shows visible ...

An exploratory expedition describes two deep-sea, low-oxygen ecosystems in the Red Sea, including some surprising fish. The findings are published in PNAS Nexus. Persistent oxygen-depleted zones ...

China has developed a compact deep-sea device capable of cutting armoured undersea cables at depths of 4,000 metres — twice the operational depth of existing subsea communication infrastructure. The ...

Both the deep sea and space are difficult to reach and even more difficult to explore. You can’t breathe the air, temperatures are extreme, gravity varies, and atmospheric pressure makes survival ...

The deep sea is a magical and mysterious realm that harbors some of the largest and most fascinating creatures on our planet. Beyond the reach of sunlight, the deep ocean remains one of Earth’s final ...

Deep Sea Diver are no strangers to the long game. The Seattle band, helmed by singer, songwriter and guitarist Jessica Dobson, released their first album in 2012. They were something of a regional ...

Something unusual is happening in the oceans. Strange deep-sea creatures are surfacing, and marine life is behaving unpredictably. From the rare sighting of the so-called “doomsday fish” to ...

These rare deep-sea fish dwell 200 to 2,000 meters deep. The frilled shark, a rare deep-sea “living fossil,” resembles an eel and was spotted in 2007 near Japan's surface, possibly due to ...

a team of scientists from the United States and Chile made an exciting discovery– a tiny crustacean unlike any other predator found in the deep sea. The creature's home is in one of the most ...

TOKYO -- With Japan's main deep-sea research vessel set to go out of service as early as the 2030s and no replacement in sight, the country risks falling even further behind China, which has the ...

Deep beneath the South China Sea, researchers in China identified massive deposits of potent methane hydrates, or “flammable ice,” in 2015. Three years later, a Chinese mission successfully ...

Scientists believe that warming ocean temperatures and changing currents might be pushing deep-sea species into unfamiliar territories. Although the exact cause remains unclear, researchers suggest ...