In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Imagine a world where sunlight never touches the ocean floor, where bizarre creatures drift through inky black waters, and ...

STRANGE creatures dredged up from the Antarctica seafloor by scientists may have previously been undiscovered. Australian ...

The looming ban on bottom trawling is the latest threat to Malaysia’s fishermen, who are also facing declining catch levels, a lack of interest from local youth in joining the trade, piracy in the ...

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers from the ...

The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.

What is the role of dissolved organic matter in the deep sea? In a study relating to this question, researchers have investigated the composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in detail. Their ...

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a ...

Nations are currently negotiating a “road map” that would govern any potential deep-sea mining in international waters. If the U.S. were to move forward with plans to support mining in the ...

Photo by Huang M-C, Kawai T (2025) At a fishing port in Taiwan, researchers bought four giant crustaceans hauled in as bycatch by a trawling vessel in the South China Sea. The deep-sea dwellers ...