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 ...

Seventy-five percent of the ocean floor lies in this zone. The Trenches This zone extends from 19,690 down to the deepest parts of the ocean, which extend down to about 35,797 feet.

According to Craig McClain — Assistant Director of Science for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and chief editor for Deep Sea News — up until the 1960s, the ocean floor was widely ...

Beneath the ocean floor, under hydrothermal vents spewing hot water, a community of animals thrive. That's according to a study published today in Nature Communications which reports, for the ...

Spy creatures reveal an ocean full of startling ways of thinking, including large-brained whales, smart octopi, diving monkeys, creative fish and other intelligent animals.

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.

The chemicals are dangerous because they harm human and animal health, don’t break down in the environment, and tend to disperse. PCBs, for example, were first discovered in the late 1880s.

The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote ...

Go on a mission deep beneath the waves in Spy in the Ocean, A Nature Miniseries, premiering Wednesdays, October 25 – November 15 at 8/7c on PBS (check local listings), YouTube and the PBS App.