Deep-sea researchers uncovered more than 500 million unique genes and a promising protein that could improve DNA sequencing ...

Scientists warn deep-sea mining recovery depends on habitat, and some losses in vents and seamounts may be irreversible.

The deep sea is a unique "evolutionary engine," with one of the richest and most unexplored sources of genetic diversity on ...

The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.

More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...

Scientists say they’ve found more than 1,100 new marine species over the last year, emphasizing how unexplored the ocean really is.

When photographer Jialing Cai plunged into the ocean in the dead of night, she found creatures of the deep had risen up to ...

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 ...

The deep sea is a dark, cold place. It's just a few degrees above freezing, subject to immense pressure, and beyond the reach of the sunlight needed for photosynthesis. The life that does survive in ...