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 ...

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.

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

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

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

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

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

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

The never-before-seen footage of sea creatures struggling in fishing nets is featured in National Geographic’s new documentary Ocean with David Attenborough.

NICE, France (AP) — An ominous chain unspools through the water. Then comes chaos. A churning cloud of mud erupts as a net plows the seafloor, wrenching rays, fish and a squid from their home in ...