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

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 ...

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 ...

Recent scientific expeditions have unveiled a trove of new species dwelling at the bottom of the ocean, including a ...

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

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

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

Scientists caution that unchecked mining could disrupt ocean food webs from the depths to dinner plates worldwide.

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

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