The ecosystem is home to seamounts, hydrothermal vents, deep-sea trenches and species found only in its freezing water. They are called the South Sandwich Islands, and researchers with the Schmidt ...

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

Greg Nerantzakis via Unsplash Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China ... In 2018, it discovered a new species ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the marine ...

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

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

Global ocean expedition uncovers hundreds of new marine species, from a venomous deep-sea snail to a rare coral, highlighting ...

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 deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

They warn that mining could drive species into extinction before they ... CIA plot to recover a Russian nuclear submarine, using deep-sea mining as a cover story. The CIA leased a ship for real ...