The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when researchers revisited it in 2023 compared ...

A rarely seen oarfish appeared in shallow water in Baja California Sur, Mexico, on Feb. 9, surprising beachgoers. The ...

A research team led by Sam Purkis, a professor and chair of the Department of Marine Geosciences at the University of Miami, used remotely operated submersibles and deep-sea probes to explore the ...

Beachgoers were shocked to discover an oarfish — a creature whose appearance, according to folklore, can be a good omen or a ...

China has officially greenlit the creation of a new deep-sea research facility in the South China Sea, an important step for both scientific exploration and geopolitical strategy. Positioned 2,000 ...

A research team led by Sam Purkis, a professor and chair of the Department of Marine Geosciences at the University of Miami, used remotely operated submersibles and deep-sea probes to explore the ...

An international team of marine biologists has documented the highest known count of deep-sea species living in methane seeps off Costa Rica's Pacific coast. Of the documented species, 131 are ...

China is planning a massive deep-sea station 6,561ft below the surface of highly contested waters in the South China Sea. The research centre, described as a "deep-sea space station" in a report ...

But now, a Boston University–led team of scientists has made it possible to view a deep-sea mountain—to study its geographic features and biodiversity—without even getting wet. It's the ...

Extreme Habitat in Red Sea Brine Pools Found Teeming With Life, Experts Hope to Learn How Life Began on Earth Time and again ...

Shares of The Metals Company (Nasdaq: TMC) surged in January amid growing anticipation of support for deep-sea mining under the Trump administration. TMC, in partnership with the Republic of Nauru ...

As it turns out, they were both wildly wrong. The creature lying on the sand was an oarfish: an eel-shaped deep-sea marine creature also known as the “doomsday fish” in Japanese folklore.