Montagna estimates it could take 50 years for the northern gulf’s deep-sea ecosystem to fully recover. Mesophotic corals and crinoids on Bright Bank, near the Flower Garden Banks National Marine ...

Great White shark while coming to you on deep blue ocean background ... via Wikimedia Commons Commonly known as sea lilies, crinoids are marine animals attached to the seafloor via a stalk, though ...

Researchers collected more than 43,000 records of dives and assessed the photos and videos to determine how much of the bottom has been seen by humans. By Rebecca Dzombak Humans have visually ...

A remotely operated submersible saw the “semi-gelatinous” animal lying on the ocean floor and “flying underwater.” Take a ...

The deep sea refers to the part of the ocean below 200 meters (656 ft.), at which light begins to disappear. Despite making ...

Scientists in the South China Sea scooped up some muck, sifted through it and found the “rarely encountered” animal. Take a ...

The Trump Administration signed an executive order late last month aiming to fast-track approval for seabed mining critical minerals found in the deep sea. The move has faced international ...

Deep-sea mining firm The Metals Co. asked the Trump administration today to approve its plans to mine the international seabed, making it the first such company to seek the government’s ...

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. In April ...

READ: China urges PH: Don’t play with fire on Taiwan issue “It’s worrisome in a way because these Chinese research vessels have the capability for deep-sea mapping. And there is a possibility that ...