Moving closer to the surface means being exposed to stress from shearing forces and more light, enabling predators that rely ...

Chinese scientists have found abiotic organic compounds in the ocean crust, shedding light on deep-sea carbon cycles and life ...

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus ...

While the power output of this battery is currently modest, requiring billions of them to light a single bulb ... power ...

they scatter it back into the layer - it's a light trap." It was Dr Osborn's frustrated efforts to take good photographs of the deep-sea species she was studying that inspired her and her ...

“The animals that live down in the deep sea are not ones that live in surface waters,” said Itay Budin, who studies the biochemistry of cell membranes at the University of California, San Diego.

This report spotlights a fisher who spends his days catching deep-sea creatures for aquariums across the country - shining a light on the beauty of these hidden waters.