Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet ...

A massive iceberg broke off from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica in January, giving researchers a rare opportunity to ...

Newborns use their voices like human infants, research scientist says. Hungry? Cry for food. Scared of a looming large adult ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

A team of explorers rappelled into the shaft-like cave and found a “pinkish” animal living in a cold river of the “deep dark zone.” Take a look.

An undergraduate University of Hawai‘i researcher was working in a laboratory in 2022 when she came upon a peculiar looking ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the biological production of light—is one of ...

So, blobfish don’t really look like melting ice cream in their natural environment. Underwater, they’re shaped like tadpoles: ...