Far below the ocean's surface, in the dark depths of the deep sea floor ecosystem (about 3,000 feet or 1,000 meters deep), exists an entire world of deep sea creatures that humans rarely glimpse.

A new species of deep-sea cucumber has over 100 feet in alternating two or three rows. This means of course that when it plays the This Little Piggy nursery rhyme it needs to repeat it 25 times. The ...

Research team members from China were scouring the Haima Cold Seep, a deep-sea environment off the coast ... Here are three of our most eye-catching stories from the past week.

None of this hints at the extremes of Deep Sea Vents, which, aside from Hornsby’s broadminded maritime themes, remains admirably capricious. “Wild Whaling Life”, inspired by Moby Dick ...

A Bathyphysa siphonophore, or a "flying spaghetti monster," spotted in the deep sea near the Salas y Gómez Ridge in the Pacific Ocean. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute The mountains of the ocean ...

Here, some deep sea animals, especially fish, are well adapted to these extremely low-oxygen conditions. While these fish won't be directly affected by deoxygenation because they already thrive in ...

The research team analyzed two decades of deep sea oceanographic data collected by observational mooring programs to show that a critical piece of Earth's global system of ocean currents in the ...

The research team analyzed two decades of deep sea oceanographic data collected by observational mooring programs to show that a critical piece of Earth's global system of ocean currents in the ...

China has five contracts according to ISA data making it the leading country for contracts for permitted deep sea mining exploration. There are currently 31 contracts that have been signed off on by ...

In the deep waters of the South China Sea, a new species was discovered near ... Here are three of our most eye-catching stories from the past week. →Volcanic ocean creature — with 'long ...