Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Despite decades of ocean exploration, humans still lack basic answers to one of the most fundamental ecological questions: ...

The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote ...

For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures have lived off of this whale’s body by stripping it and burrowing into ...

Ancient limestones reveal how volcanic carbon once suffocated the oceans - offering a stark warning as modern oxygen levels continue to drop.

Bedrock Ocean has developed an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that runs for up to 12 hours off its lithium-ion batteries while mapping the floor using its sonar and magnetic sensors.

Dr. Maarten De Brauwer at Curtin University discovered hairy frogfish have fluorescent lures that glow orange under blue ...

According to the National Academy of Science the 3 new species use methane, with the help of bacteria, to get energy.

Scientists say they have discovered three previously unknown, unnamed species of sea spider off the U.S. West Coast that ...

Jellyfish are well known for their ability to multiply en masse and influence coastal ecosystems. But what is less known is that they have very diverse and sometimes surprising life cycles. In ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost world.