A research team led by Sam Purkis, a professor and chair of the Department of Marine Geosciences at the University of Miami, used remotely operated submersibles and deep-sea probes to explore the ...

Something unusual is happening in the oceans. Strange deep-sea creatures are surfacing, and marine life is behaving unpredictably. From the rare sighting of the so-called “doomsday fish” to ...

Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...

When Hans Hartman, a civil engineer, attempted to film the ocean depths in 1917, he pioneered what would become the first deep-sea ROV, or remotely operated vehicle. During an era of silent movies ...

"Deep-sea discovery calls into question the origins of life," the Scottish Association for Marine Science said in a press release to accompany the publication of the research. Environmentalists ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Papua New Guinea leaders struggle to monitor deep-sea mining activities off its coast The kind of deep-sea mining that we've examined this week is only legally permitted inside a country's ...

Someone off-camera comments that oarfish tend to live a mile deep in the water and are “almost never” seen alive. Hayes told Storyful “the man seen holding the oarfish in the footage said he ...

The Black Seadevil anglerfish lurks thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface, known for its haunting appearance and bioluminescent lure. In 2024, one was spotted near Spain’s Canary Islands ...