Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

The 30cm-long (11.8in) juvenile was spotted at a depth of 600m (1,968ft), near the South Sandwich Islands in the south ...

A spherical sea sponge discovered in Antarctica, Carnivorous cladorhizid, is a carnivore, trapping and devouring live animals.

Halalaimus is a microscopic nematode genus commonly found in sediment on the seafloor. It lives 1–5 cm below the sediment ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...

At the very bottom of the ocean, where pressure crushes metal and sunlight never reaches, a short, grainy video has sparked a ...

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. This ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management extended the public comment period for its deep-sea mining proposal near the Mariana ...

Researchers say the new footage of the deep sea fish may be the first live sighting of the creature in daylight near the ocean's surface Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He ...

India’s first Deep Sea Marine Microbial Repository to study micro-organisms found in extreme marine environments is taking shape at a sea-front campus of the National Institute of Ocean Technology ...

In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen." When ...