In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Head down deep enough into the ocean and you might just find the lord of the underworld – except it turns out he’s a bit more ...

Donald Trump has signed a controversial executive order aimed at stepping up deep-sea mining within US and in international ...

A recent video from the South Atlantic Ocean captured bizarre, pigtail-like parasites clinging to a deep-sea rattail fish at ...

The new species were found in the East China Sea, a body of water off the eastern coast of China, south of Japan and South ...

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

2002 MBARI Grimpoteuthis, a type of Dumbo octopus (up to 5 feet), lives in every ocean, near the bottom ... deep as 26,000 feet and pulled up more than 4,000 unknown species. The strange creatures ...

Recent discoveries make this connection even stronger. Scientists found that special rocks in the deep sea can make oxygen ...

Anglerfish is a species about which little is known. But, after a deceased one washed up on a West Coast beach, fascination ...

The deep sea is a strange and mysterious place. With the vast majority of the ocean still unexplored, it’s no surprise that some of the creatures living down there are unlike anything we’ve ever seen.

Using Schmidt Ocean Institute’s remotely operated vehicle, ROV SuBastian, the team observed the deep seafloor for eight ... Based on the size of the animals, the communities we observed have ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. BERGEN ...