In a groundbreaking discovery that expands the known boundaries of life habitats, scientists have uncovered extremophiles ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

The vast and mysterious depths of our oceans hold an unexpected beacon of hope in the face of the growing plastic pollution crisis. A unique breed of deep-sea bacteria has been discovered, capable of ...

New deep-sea limpet species, Pectinodonta nautilus, found on a sunken log near Johnston Atoll, nearly 8,000 feet deep.

Image: Brisingid sea stars in the Lau Basin/South Pacific vent system. Credit: “Ridge 2000” Lau expedition, taken with Jason II in 2005. Click here for a high resolution photograph. A statement of ...

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

In the darkness of the deep ocean, where pressure crushes and light fails, an expedition has found an astonishing array of ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan and The Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) of Tokyo Institute of Technology ...

A deep-sea worm that lives in hydrothermal vents is the first known animal to create orpiment, a toxic, arsenic-containing mineral that was used by artists for centuries A bright-yellow worm that ...

Deep-sea hydrothermal vent environments are unique ecosystems where geological activity creates extreme physicochemical conditions. In these habitats, chemosynthetic processes underpin primary ...