Glass sponges are found along the deep sea, providing a hiding place for small critters along the seafloor. For one newly ...

The deep sea begins at about 200 meters below sea level, where light starts to diminish in a region called the twilight zone.

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Three robotic arms extended under the water in a Canadian lake, delicately selecting pebbles from the bed, before storing ...

Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to ...

Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal.

For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.