Pixar is a juggernaut of the industry, producing beloved modern classics that have redefined animation, including The ...

For decades, scientists thought they had a solid count of the world’s shark species. Then deep-sea discoveries started piling up - some pulled from fishing nets, others hidden in museum archives for ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the deep sea. However, researchers still don't know very much about the ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

The study inventoried thousands of mollusks, worms, crustaceans and other small marine creatures. Natural History Museum, London and University of Gothenburg As demand soars for critical minerals for ...

In May 1925, a strange decaying corpse washed ashore on Moore’s Beach, now known as Natural Bridges State Beach, in Santa Cruz. Locals who swarmed out to investigate the specimen described elephantine ...

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An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...

The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will resume on Dec. 30, the country’s Transport Ministry announced Wednesday, more than a decade after the airplane’s mysterious disappearance over the ...

In a step toward better understanding how the ocean sequesters carbon, new findings from UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators challenge the current view of how carbon dioxide is “fixed” in ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — In a step toward better understanding how the ocean sequesters carbon, new findings from UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators challenge the current view of how ...

Point Nemo is situated in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, farther from land than any other documented spot on the planet. Its coordinates mark a location surrounded by thousands of miles of open ...