Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

The deep seas have long captured human imagination, with their eerie, dark depths and mysterious creatures. However, what we once imagined as mythical sea monsters, such as the Kraken or giant sea ...

Big, small, one-eyed, and wacky. Read more about these weird deep-sea creatures and what roles they play in the deep blue.

In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third ...

The deep sea is home to weird and wonderful creatures that, over millions of years, have evolved specific traits to survive the extreme conditions of their habitat. These adaptations to their ...

Some of the world’s most fascinating creatures live underwater. And unlike the more mainstream animals under the sea — seahorses, sharks, and even deep sea anglerfish — one cool member of ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

Scientists on the US West Coast say they discovered three previously unknown species of deep-sea spider that could have a rare diet fueled by a common greenhouse gas.

KOTA KINABALU: Pitch black, cold, silent. The bottom of the ocean, where sunlight does not reach, where weird and unusual sea ...

MJ Algarra details to PEOPLE exclusively her experience swimming in the heart of hundreds of sharks and sea creatures during ...

A shimmery deep-sea creature measuring almost 5 feet mysteriously washed ashore on an Oregon beach. Now, researchers get a chance to learn more about the lancetfish. The big-eyed fish with sharp ...