The deep sea is home to many different animals, some of which you may have never heard of before. One example is the ...

Potato-shaped metallic nodules deep under the Pacific Ocean produce oxygen in complete darkness, challenging previous assumptions about oxygen production. The discovery of "dark oxygen" raises ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience found evidence of oxygen production near polymetallic nodules located deep in the ocean. Called dark oxygen, this oxygen is being produced ...

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The eyes of the male dragonfish grow larger for mate seeking, a sexual dimorphism that makes the dragonfish an anomaly in vertebrate evolution, researchers report. A small but ferocious predator, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. Sampling the seabed of a mountainous ridge 13,000 feet below the ...

In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen." When ...

The Metals Co. is trying to discredit new research that bolsters opponents’ claims that the deep sea is too unknown to mine. Scientists this week unveiled what they say is evidence that rocks rich ...

Rocks are generating 'dark oxygen' in an area being explored for deep-sea mining. Over 12,000 feet below the surface of the sea, in a region of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Environmental systems scientist at the University of Delaware. As with other polarized issues such as nuclear energy, there has ...

In most vertebrates, the absence of adaptive immunity would be catastrophic, but in some deep-sea angler fish species, it enables their “wild” and “wacky” mating habits. The silver spinyfin has an ...