A reserve of natural gas bubbling from a cage of ice discovered on the ocean floor to the west of Greenland may be the ...

Deep beneath the icy crust of the Greenland Sea, a multinational team of scientists has stumbled upon a world that shouldn't ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with ...

Giant amphipod species Alicella gigantea, once thought to be very rare, is found to inhabit the majority of Earth's deep ...

When we think of snow, we usually think of winter. But did you know that it is always snowing in the ocean? Read more about marine snow.

In the South China Sea, near the Paracel Islands, the aqua-colored waters of an expansive shallow reef platform suddenly ...

From the first sighting of a colossal squid in the wild to a seriously goofy octopus, 2025 delivered some astounding photos ...

Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea ...

Half the planet lies outside any country’s border. In those waters, rules have long been thinner than the myths: freedom to ...

The snailfish is one of the deepest-living marine species in the ocean, and there is still much to discover about them.

It begins with a number that seems almost laughable: over 420 meters deep. That’s how far down explorers have probed the Taam ...

Scientists have long assumed the deep-sea Alicella gigantea was an uncommon survivor of the abyss.