A colossal squid was filmed for the first time in its natural habitat near the South Sandwich Islands during a recent ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

There are vast fields of “deep sea potatoes” to be found at the bottom of the Pacific. Known to battery makers as manganese nodules, they can pack an incredible volume of the delicious metals like ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

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Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute noticed the sea spider, the size of a dinner plate, about 2km beneath the icy surface waters of the South Sandwich Islands, a chain of volcanic islands ...

Using remotely operated submersibles and deep-sea probes, the scientists plunged into the deep-sea trenches of the Red Sea, which lies between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Their goal was to ...

But this unique ecosystem faces an unprecedented threat. As the demand for electric car batteries and smartphones grows, mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious ...

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers have investigated the composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in detail. Their ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

A team of Earth scientists affiliated with Peking University and the Southern University of Science and Technology, both in ...