The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

A standout discovery was this new predatory sponge. Its spherical form is covered in tiny hooks that trap prey.

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences on the tiny animals at the core of the vast ocean ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've ...

Scientists are revolutionizing how new marine species are described through the Ocean Species Discoveries initiative. Using advanced lab techniques, researchers recently unveiled 14 new species from ...

The twilight zone hosts a diversity of life - including tiny krill, fish, squid, octopus and gelatinous species such as ...

Documentation provides one of the most detailed observations of seafloor biodiversity and habitats at these depths ...

There are some quite mysterious and strange creatures lurking in the deepest parts of the world’s oceans. Watch the latest ...

Scientists caution that unchecked mining could disrupt ocean food webs from the depths to dinner plates worldwide.

When the submarine plunged to about 1,500 meters below sea level, ecologist Jeff Drazen asked the pilots to cut the strobe lights that had been guiding them through the pitch-black waters. For a ...