Meet the longest living animal on Earth, whose lifespan stretches back thousands of years! More ancient than Shakespeare, ...

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.

What do we really know about the deep ocean? Whether Earth’s ocean is an ecological ... Do we truly know less of the sea ...

New study shows just how little – about 99.999% – of the world’s oceanic depths have been viewed by human eyes.

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.

Human eyes have only seen a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the areas of the world that are covered by deep water. Scientists ...

Geographically known as Sycamore Knoll, the natural underwater structure looks like a bump pushing up from the ocean floor, with a flat, table-like top. It has been studied by scientists for years ...

White House aides say the initiative could see US operations scoop up more than a billion metric tons of mineral-rich deep-sea nodules ... But the move to disrupt ocean floor ecosystems to ...

Parts of the Pacific Ocean ... deep sea for the profit of a few corporations," said Arlo Hemphill of Greenpeace, which opposes the practice. Researchers say oxygen is being produced on the ocean ...

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa ...

Commercial deep-sea mining remains in its infancy, but with a global race underway for rare earth minerals – and the industry dominated by China – Washington appears set on expanding its ...