A new study finds that deep-sea mining waste in the ocean’s twilight zone could disrupt food webs and starve midwater ...

A newly discovered species of carnivorous sponge, dubbed the "death-ball sponge," has stunned researchers with its eerie appearance and deadly hunting methods.

Explore Australia's new underwater surveillance network designed to enhance maritime defense and security in strategic ...

DePTH-GPT is an outcome of the Digital DEPTH project, which focuses on deep-sea habitats and was launched under the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

EU researchers are exploring how undersea communication cables can double-up as environmental and seismic sensors—a potential ...

Scientists are baffled by a gruesome new species dubbed the 'carnivorous death ball' that lives in the deepest part of the ...

China has field-tested an intelligent robotic mining vehicle at a depth of 2,000 meters (6,561 feet) in the western Pacific Ocean.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes ...

The race to mine battery minerals from the ocean floor would create a new stream of waste that could rob sea life of a critical food source, according to new research published today in the journal ...

Over recent decades, deep-sea researchers have collected samples from vents across the globe. But since the early 2000s, one ...