Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists ...

The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

A spherical sea sponge discovered in Antarctica, Carnivorous cladorhizid, is a carnivore, trapping and devouring live animals ...

In the inky blackness nearly 10,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered strange animals that may hold ...

Ocean plastic has hit a critical point in 2025, threatening turtles, whales, and seabirds. See which solutions still offer hope.

One of the most attractive targets for deep sea mining advocates is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a continent-sized ...

Looking out of the Fendouzhe submersible, more than nine kilometres below the ocean surface, Mengran Du knew she was seeing ...

A newly discovered predatory “death-ball” sponge in the Southern Ocean hunts small prey with tiny hooks, revealing surprising ...

In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third time in a decade to glimpse the life still clinging to a whale’s ...

More than a dozen cold-stunned sea turtles were recently transferred from the New England Aquarium in Boston to Mystic ...

Scientists on California’s Central Coast recently spotted a giant, evasive seven-arm octopus while on a research expedition ...