There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth, from the intertidal zone to more than four ...

Human eyes have only seen a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the areas of the world that are covered by deep water. Scientists ...

As scientists reveal we have only explored 0.001 per cent of the deep ocean, an interactive graphic shows what is lurking beneath the waves.

Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometers off ...

The deep sea refers to the part of the ocean below 200 meters (656 ft.), at which light begins to disappear. Despite making ...

Hundreds of millions of years before oxygen surged in the atmosphere 2.4 billion years ago, swaths of oxygen winked in and out of existence in the ocean.

"May be to allow more effective exploitation of resources." Scientists stunned as deep-sea camera captures elusive creature ...

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

It’s a pretty appropriate name given where H. hades lives; the trench extends down to the hadal zone, itself named after ...

Donald Trump has signed a controversial executive order aimed at stepping up deep-sea mining within US and in international ...

President Trump is reportedly considering an executive order that would speed up permitting for deep-sea mining, which could ...

Deep-sea mining endangers rare species, threatening biodiversity in the ocean's depths and raising critical questions about ...