Giant sea spiders, octopuses, ice fish, corals, and sponges—some likely to be hundreds of years old—were discovered in a ...

A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...

Researchers were in a remote region of the Bellingshausen Sea on a different expedition when the iceberg calved, giving them a chance to change course and explore a region never before accessible to ...

The sighting “highlights the importance of modern, cost-effective technologies to survey the deep sea and locate these lost sharks before they vanish.” ...

Most climate models now show that cutting emissions won’t be enough to curb global warming, leading to new interest in carbon ...

A gigantic iceberg cracked off Antarctica on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen daylight in decades. Researchers decided to search the seafloor under the freshly exposed ocean. What ...

While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, the machine’s camera captured a creature that ...

Once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," the blobfish – scientific name Psychrolutes marcidus – has been named New Zealand's ...

As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep ...

Scientists say they have the first recorded video evidence of narwhals using tusks not only to strike and manipulate fish ...