New discovery of a fragile ecosystem beneath undersea volcano leaves researchers baffled. They fear it may be vulnerable to ...

In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third ...

Sea cucumbers may appear slow and unassuming, but they have developed an incredible and unforgettable defensive strategy.

The Metals Company, based in Canada, created a U.S. subsidiary to mine Clarion Clipperton, and received a major boost in ...

In 2022 the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute reported a new species of nudibranch crawling on the ocean floor near the Gulf of California at a depth of more than 7,700 feet.

Scientists on the US West Coast say they discovered three previously unknown species of deep-sea spider that could have a rare diet fueled by a common greenhouse gas.

As you’ll see in this amazing YouTube video, dugongs are famous for moving along the ocean floor like vacuum cleaners, ... The dugong is an interesting animal with ties to many other species.

There are a number of sea animals that operate entirely on instinct ... Despite their lack of complex thought, they play an important role in cleaning the ocean floor by breaking down organic material ...

Currently, about 26% of the ocean floor has been mapped to a high resolution, ... which lies between 1,000 and 4,000 meters deep and is the largest animal habitat on Earth, ...

Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source of oxygen for the animals, plants and bacteria that live there.