We've mapped the surface of Mars in more detail than the bottom of our own oceans. Over 80% of the seafloor remains unexplored, and the creatures that live down there make science fiction look ...

In 2024, researchers made a groundbreaking discovery in the Pacific Ocean's Clarion-Clipperton Zone, finding that oxygen increased over two days to more than three times the background concentration ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can’t reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...

Bottom dwellers have never been more spectacular. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In a tiny, high-tech submersible sunk deeper than ...

Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t expect to read today: Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a deep-sea creature that lives on sunken wood at the bottom of the ocean, and ...

The world’s largest animal migration and ocean gyres play vital roles in the global carbon cycle. Scientists went into the ...

A deep-sea mollusk, Catillopecten margaritatus, lost its sight and adapted to bacteria and chemicals to survive in extreme ...

Production of this article included the use of AI. It was reviewed and edited by a team of content specialists. The deep ocean off Argentina’s coast is teeming with far more life than scientists ever ...

Scientists have found evidence of giant squid and numerous other rarely seen marine creatures off the coast of Western ...

When her three-person submersible descended more than 30,000 feet into one of the Pacific Ocean’s deepest trenches, Mengran Du wasn’t sure what they would find. What she saw, she recalled, was ...