By David Brown Plastic pollution could disrupt the bioluminescent light produced by deep-sea organisms, researchers warn in a ...

The deep sea has no shortage of unusual creatures, from methane-eating spiders to shape-shifting octopuses. Among them are ...

"The abyssal plain covers half of the surface of the Earth, but far less than one percent of it has ever been seen," begins ...

New sediment tests from a research vessel in the Red Sea suggest that primordial deep-sea microbes may offer a glimpse of how life made energy before Earth had oxygen.

A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of the deep sea, marine life is far more globally connected than previously ...

As anyone who’s stayed up well past their bedtime knows, catching a taxi or Uber home can be a godsend, and now recent ...

New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t Jack Tamisiea Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea ...

People have long wondered what life was first like on Earth, and if there is life in our solar system beyond our planet. Scientists have reason to believe that some of the moons in our solar ...

Researchers identified the fish using a mix of traditional anatomy and modern DNA analysis ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...