There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the ...

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

A deep-sea ecologist writes that the United States’ new rush to allow deep-sea mining raises significant environmental ...

In the deep sea, there are places where chemicals and nutrients seep out of the sediment and into the water. These chemosynthetics-based ecosystems were discovered in 1977, and in the decades since, ...

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

Halalaimus is a microscopic nematode genus commonly found in sediment on the seafloor. It lives 1–5 cm below the sediment ...

Is it downright adorable, or is it so ugly it's cute? Either way, this newly discovered pink fish has the makings to survive in one of the darkest, coldest places on earth, and its pink, bumpy face is ...

A spherical sea sponge discovered in Antarctica, Carnivorous cladorhizid, is a carnivore, trapping and devouring live animals ...