A research team led by professor Qian Peiyuan, chair professor in the Department of Ocean Science at The Hong Kong University ...

The standout find was "Loki the Sea Cucumber," a member of the genus Peniagone whose horn-like appendages recalled the Norse ...

A mischievous sea cucumber and 56 other newly discovered marine species are making a splash in the South Atlantic Ocean. The ...

The ocean covers more than 70% of Earth’s surface, yet we’ve explored less than 20% of it. Beneath the familiar waves lies a world so strange, so extreme, and so biologically diverse that it makes the ...

Reading time: 3 minutes Some of the animals identified in the deep-sea that spend their life in the benthic boundary layer.(Photo credit: Gabrielle Ellis) An enormous but poorly understood region of ...

More than 700 people attended the event, learning more about the least-explored ecosystem on the planet and the researchers ...

(CNN) — Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed.

Newswise — After years of negotiations, international regulators may soon finalize rules governing deep sea mining. This mining would happen in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone between Hawaii and Mexico.

Naoki Saito, a researcher at the Integrated Research Center for Nature Positive Technology of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (and who is also affiliated ...

In 2016, NOAA launched a new four-year initiative to study deep-sea coral and sponge ecosystems across the Southeast United States, a region that includes the U.S. federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico ...

Cartoon cephalopod Miss Abyss is taking a page out of the 'Flat Stanley' playbook to spread the word about ocean conservation ...

An enormous but poorly understood region of the global ocean—referred to as the abyssal benthic boundary layer—lies a few meters above the seafloor and has only been sampled a handful of times. A ...