Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...

Despite the deep ocean covering two-thirds of our planet’s surface, humans have only explored a staggering 0.001% of it, according to a study published in Science Advances on May 7. This tiny fraction ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

For decades, oceanographers have known that something did not add up in the deep sea. Huge predators like sharks and tunas were spending long stretches in the dim “twilight zone,” yet the known prey ...