Far below the Pacific, a volcano long written off as geologically dead has turned out to be both active and teeming with life ...

Bone-eating zombie worms vanished from Pacific canyons during a 10-year study, raising concerns that oxygen loss is altering ...

Mashable recently visited DEEP's campus — the Bristol-based company building deep sea habitats with the mission to get people to live under water by the end of this decade. We'll take you underwater ...

Quick Take Achieving the first live photographs of a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale ended a 66-year mystery since the species ...

Scientists discovered deep Arctic methane mounds that release gas, shape ecosystems, and inform climate risks.

A research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in understanding the adaptive strategies of the deep-sea black coral ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

Some 390 million years ago in the ancient ocean, marine animals began colonizing depths previously uninhabited. New research indicates this underwater migration occurred in response to a permanent ...

GALVESTON, Texas -- In the early morning, at a lab not too far from the Galveston coast, Shannon Ainsworth is collecting hundreds of tiny, floating brown eggs from a tank of deep-sea coral. She sticks ...