R esearchers have detected hints of life where they did not believe it could exist. Findings regarding this discovery have ...

New research shows how deep-sea fish evolved unique body shapes depending on depth and habitat, revealing surprising ...

Fish species living in the deep sea feature a surprisingly large range of body shapes that evolved in different ways and at ...

The twilight zone hosts a diversity of life - including tiny krill, fish, squid, octopus and gelatinous species such as ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

At the bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an ...

Deep-sea mining operations could potentially disrupt marine ecosystems by releasing nutrient-poor sediments that essentially ...

In the darkness of the deep ocean, where pressure crushes and light fails, an expedition has found an astonishing array of ...

Scientists have found microbial traces in deep-sea blue volcanic mud, offering crucial insights into how life may thrive in ...

New research from University of Hawai‘i at Manoa warns that particle plumes from Pacific mining operations could starve ...

Scientists discovered a new deep-sea limpet, Pectinodonta nautilus, living on a sunken log near Johnston Atoll, showing ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa published on 6 November in Nature Communications is ...