In the year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to create a deep-sea mining industry from ...

Strange Deep-Sea Creatures Were Once Mistaken for Monsters and It's Easy to See Why ...

Humans have only explored a tiny percentage of the seafloor, so there's a good chance some of the strangest creatures or relics haven’t even been discovered. With that in mind, here’s a collection of ...

Thousands of meters below the ocean's surface lurk some gigantic creatures, much larger than their shallow-water brethren. Scientists have a few hunches for why this happens, but the debate continues.

This enigmatic orb has undergone extensive examination and DNA testing, enabling scientists to reveal its true origins ...

Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this watery realm remains a complete mystery. That's because humans have seen ...

NICE, France—The deep sea—Earth’s largest and least-explored biome—is taking center stage at the United Nations Ocean conference this week, where marine experts are demanding world leaders end bottom ...

The Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), in partnership with the scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers and science YouTuber Ze Frank, have let the internet name a newly discovered deep‑sea ...

When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining. As an early-career deep-sea ...