London — The Monday collision between a cargo ship and an oil tanker in the North Sea "has a high risk of being an environmental disaster in really important protected areas," Naomi Tilley ...

a team of scientists from the United States and Chile made an exciting discovery– a tiny crustacean unlike any other predator found in the deep sea. The creature's home is in one of the most ...

TOKYO -- With Japan's main deep-sea research vessel set to go out of service as early as the 2030s and no replacement in sight, the country risks falling even further behind China, which has the ...

Mario Simijaca/Shutterstock A surfer is missing after he was reportedly attacked by a "massive" shark in chest-deep water. On Monday, March 10 at approximately 12:17 p.m. local time, the ...

Both the deep sea and space are difficult to reach and even more difficult to explore. You can’t breathe the air, temperatures are extreme, gravity varies, and atmospheric pressure makes survival ...

"Our objective was the deep-sea shark, the bluntnose sixgill," it explained. "This ancient species predates most dinosaurs, and is a dominant predator of the deep sea ecosystem." FSU Marine Lab's ...

Clever video editing techniques, including animations from Godzilla movies, were seamlessly stitched onto real Google Earth data to create the illusion of a terrifying deep-sea predator. This isn’t ...

The reaction shows our views of the deep sea – long ignored or seen as a realm of monsters – may at last be changing. Anglerfish are much smaller than you probably think they are. The specimen ...

But deep-sea mining is a controversial means of obtaining them because of its potentially significant environmental impacts. "We felt that a vehicle that used AI to look for life and avoid it ...

Due to the extreme conditions in the deep sea, its ecosystems and high biodiversity (made up mostly of small organisms living in the sediment) are particularly sensitive to disturbances.

Deep beneath the South China Sea, researchers in China identified massive deposits of potent methane hydrates, or “flammable ice,” in 2015. Three years later, a Chinese mission successfully ...