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 ...

A new study finds that deep-sea mining waste in the ocean’s twilight zone could disrupt food webs and starve midwater ...

Nearly seven kilometers beneath thePacific Ocean’s surface, in an environment no human has seen directly, scientists have ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

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

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it ...

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 ...

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 ...

An ambitious mission aims to protect one of the Mediterranean’s last great frontiers: Caprera Canyon, a vast underwater valley off Sardinia’s coast.

In recent weeks, TikTok has been joking and/or weeping over the fate of the Bathypterois grallator, or the tripod fish. It got its name for its adult stage of life, during which it grows three long ...