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Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

A clip of a deep sea oarfish washed up on a beach has circulated online, prompting false claims that its presence is a ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

In February, researchers from conservation organisation Condrik Tenerife were about two kilometres off the coast of Tenerife ...

The coelacanth, a 400-million-year-old ancient fish, was assumed to be extinct until its rediscovery in 1938, revealing the ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

A New Zealand-based nonprofit announced the blobfish as the winner of its "Fish of the Year" vote, years after it was named ...

The blobfish is specially adapted to life in the deep ocean, but it looks like a shapeless blob when brought to the surface.

Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...

The blobfish, known for its unattractive appearance, has been declared New Zealand's Fish of the Year, altering public ...