Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, ...

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Divers, underwater submersibles and remotely operated vehicles found 886 marine species over a 16-month period, and they have ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the marine ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

A newly discovered mechanism could explain the shock finding last year that oxygen is produced by metallic nodules on the ...

Eunice siphoninsidiator, or the tube ambushing marine bristle worm, was discovered within the structure of glass sponges by a ...

The sea cucumber’s color is “unique,” researchers said, and its smaller number of tentacles (15 compared to 18 found in other ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean in the ... In 2018, it discovered a new species of sea cucumber. While the robot was about 4,400 feet below the surface, a cylindrical figure appeared in ...