Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

As the years went by, advances in deep-sea rover technology also enabled the team to do something unique for this special creature that previous generations could not do: create a research ...

A large cluster of tubeworms at the East Pacific Rise, 8,200 feet deep. Researchers using a deep sea rover to search beneath hydrothermal vents uncovered a series of subsurface chambers that serve ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

The deep sea provides food to many species in shallower waters, like the swordfish, which dives up to 1,200 meters to feed. Related We’re protecting the ocean wrong ...

And once a dive is underway, it progresses slowly. A rover tethered to a ship has ... Dr. Bell and her collaborators collected more than 43,000 records of deep-sea dives and assessed the ...

The deep sea refers to the part of the ocean below 200 meters (656 ft.), at which light begins to disappear. Despite making up more than 90% of the Earth’s marine environment, ...

There is currently no commercial deep-sea mining happening anywhere in the world, though companies have been pushing for years. They appear to have found a new champion in Trump.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to promote mining of the deep-sea floor, a controversial way to get critical minerals that are used in a wide range of electronics and ...

After an initial sighting almost a quarter century ago, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have revealed a deep-sea discovery for the ages. On Monday, MBARI researchers ...