When ships sink, they add artificial structures to the seafloor that can quickly become diverse, ecologically important ...

NASA has taken images of an incredible phytoplankton display around the Chatham Islands where warm and colder water converge ...

Which ocean has the maximum number of islands in the world? Explore why the Pacific Ocean holds this record, along with its ...

Andrew Gustafson, 60, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, “to wit, a paddleboard," in connection with the August ...

This rarely seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean.

The pull felt heavier than usual, but nothing prepared us for what surfaced. What came out of the water wasn’t scrap it was ...

Japan has become the first country to successfully extract rare earth-rich sediment from 6,000 metres beneath the Pacific ...

For decades, a single whale’s strange 52-hertz call has baffled scientists, raising haunting questions about its identity, ...

Off the volcanic ridges of the Eastern Pacific, deep beneath the surface where sunlight never reaches, a team of researchers ...

Divers in Chile are aging wine underwater. Bottles are placed in cages on the seabed. The ocean's cold, dark, and pressurized environment offers stable conditions for wine maturation. This method uses ...

There isn’t a lot going on here, compared to other places. For example, a sample from the bottom of the North Sea can contain up to 20,000 animals, while a sample from the deep sea floor may only have ...