Other types of sea spiders that don’t live near seeps largely eat other invertebrates. But the researchers found the new sea ...

Overall, then, the answer is no – for 95 percent of shark species, the idea that they’ll keel over if they ever stop moving ...

The Oculina Bank coral reef, found nowhere else in the world, is thousands of years old and habitat for species of grouper and snapper.

In the rocky intertidal zones along the coast of Taiwan, a five-armed creature scuttles along the seafloor. Its brown, green ...

Seafloor imaging, which began in 1958, is a slower undertaking: Many of the remote operating vehicles (ROVs) that are used to capture imagery move at below 1 mile per hour and have a visual field ...

A new study in Science Advances by U.S. researchers has estimated how much of the deep seafloor humans have observed visually so far, to quantify what remains unseen and geographic biases.

In fact, the area of the deep seafloor that's been directly visualized ... to human-driven subs to simple landers that didn't move around. It turns out that most of the exploratory expeditions ...

Humans have visually documented about 1,470 square miles, or a mere 0.001 percent, of the deep seafloor, according to a new study.That’s a little larger than the size of Rhode Island.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 24 to expedite the process of exploring and mining for valuable minerals found on the deep ocean seafloor, in both U.S. and ...

An international team on board Schmidt Ocean Institute's R/V Falkor (too) working in the Bellingshausen Sea rapidly pivoted their research plans to study an area that was, until last month ...

Scientists monitoring the spread of Caulerpa on Great Barrier Island say they're starting to see the invasive weed move away from the sandy sea floor. It's the Caulerpa growing on the rocky reefs that ...

While positioning on the seafloor is difficult by means of the global navigation satellite system (GNSS), GNSS-Acoustic (GNSS-A) technique is a powerful tool to detect the seafloor crustal deformation ...