The Trump administration is taking a step toward potentially allowing companies to trawl for minerals under the ocean floor ...

The Trump administration says it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific island of American Samoa ...

Analysis has shown a boulder weighing almost 1,200 tons in Tonga is one of the largest known wave-transported rocks in the ...

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Then, the creatures of the deep sea began dazzling the crew with a striking display of bioluminescent lights, emitting ...

The enigmatic crustacean Alicella gigantea is the world’s largest amphipod, but like all deep-sea creatures it hasn’t proved ...

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake in the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of Malibu shook the Los Angeles area, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The 8-mile deep quake hit 3 miles from Malibu Beach at ...

A submersible in the Pacific Ocean found a deep-sea creature with ... The new species of Dumbo octopus seen in its natural habitat. Photo from Tang, Zheng and Zhang (2025), shared by Yan ...