In the crushing darkness of the ocean floor, creatures evolve into giants, growing far larger than their shallow-water relatives — a survival strategy shaped by scarcity, pressure, and time.

The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest and most impressive giants in the ocean. With a flattened, ...

A research trip to Antarctica uncovered marine life that hadn't been seen before in one of the world's most remote spots.

From Vallée de Mai’s ancient palms to North Island’s turtle patrols, the Seychelles pairs eco-led luxury with vivid Creole ...

The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

The ocean is continuously ventilated when surface waters sink and transport, for example, oxygen and carbon to greater depths ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

The vast majority of our planet’s oceans remain unexplored, hiding secrets that challenge everything we thought we knew about ...

"The structures that we were able to identify in the images are clearly the mouth of a river into an ocean." The post ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with mid-sized fish such as the bigscale pomfret, which live deep during the ...