Building upon previous research, University of Rhode Island Professor of Ocean Engineering and Oceanography Brennan Phillips ...

It’s something never seen before,” marine biologist Cherisse Du Preez told Science Post France, when her team’s submersible ...

Some microbes living on sand grains use up all the oxygen around them. Their neighbors, left without oxygen, make the best of it: They use nitrate in the surrounding water for denitrification -- a ...

Microplastics distribution was mapped from the surface to the deep sea at a global scale. Source: Florida Atlantic University ...

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It might or might not be the smell of aliens, but dimethyl sulfide — and its funky odor — definitely gets around ...

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

Watch this man's peaceful deep sea dive turn dark when a furious and huge eel attacks and bites him on his arm!

Life thrives far beneath the surface, in places once thought too harsh for survival. In the shadows of Earth’s crust, tiny ...

The oil-and-gas and deep-sea-mining industries require extensive knowledge, and they pay for it. But, with a few exceptions, the characteristics of the deepest trenches are largely unknown.

The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in its biological diversity, and it’s disappearing even faster.

And the ice caps covering the Arctic and Antarctica began to melt, raising sea levels around the world. A vast array of ancient evidence — including ice cores, fossils, deep sea sediments and ...