Dive into the depths of the ocean to discover seven rare deep-sea creatures so strange and elusive, you won't believe they ...

Researchers studying a deep-sea octopus called Muusoctopus robustus have found thousands of the animals congregating at ...

I've been to the Mariana Trench. The choice is clear: Protect one of earth's last frontiers or destroy it before we even understand what we're losing.

Jessica Kolbusz — an oceanographer at the Minderoo-University of Western Australia Deep-Sea Research Center — spotted an ...

Sinking clumps of dead ocean life have been shown to leak up to half their carbon and more than half their nitrogen when ...

A newly discovered deep-sea creature has become an unlikely Internet star. After appearing in a popular YouTube video, a rare ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

A recent deep sea exploration off Argentina's coast revealed an incredible video of a giant jellyfish that can grow to be as ...

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on ...

Q. Someone told me that the body and arms of calamari, like you eat in a restaurant, can be more than 40 feet long. I’m not sure I believe my ...

“Going up in space is relatively easy compared to going deep into the ocean,” said Sylvia Earle, 90, an oceanographer and ...

An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the seafloor for manganese, nickel, cobalt and other minerals used in electric vehicles, solar panels and more. Meanwhile, ...