Many of the minerals involved in proposed deep sea mining operations are located on black, potato-shaped nodules that lie on ...

Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.

There's more riding on this than it may seem. If dark oxygen is, in fact, being produced, it could support deep-sea ecosystems that we know little to nothing about. Conservation groups ...

Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this ...

Unsurprisingly, most direct observations of the deep sea occurred in the waters around wealthy countries ... The former is ...

The largest biome on Earth, the deep-sea, is a dark, barren place and the distance between individuals that live there can be vast, Kenaley said. Most animals in this realm produce their own light ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Like many creatures that inhabit the dark depths of the sea, dragonfish survive thanks ... studied two species—Malacosteus niger and Photostomias guernei—of deep-sea dragonfish that are sexually ...

The silver spinyfin has an extraordinary diversity of rod photopigments, which researchers propose may allow it to see color in the deep, dark sea. After a year teaching an algorithm to differentiate ...

During periods of lower sea level, when caves were dry ... Without the unique geologic structure of the inland blue holes—deep, dark, sheltered, with little tidal flow—specialized bacteria ...

By Maya Wei-Haas Maya Wei-Haas previously reported on the final expeditions of a deep-sea drilling research ship. Andrew Wozniak, a chemical oceanographer at the University of Delaware ...