The deep sea has no shortage of unusual creatures, from methane-eating spiders to shape-shifting octopuses. Among them are ...

Film-maker Eleanor Mortimer accompanies a scientific expedition to the deep Pacific, where new creatures are abundant yet threatened by sea mining ...

A deep-sea microbe uses an exceptionally heat-resistant enzyme to turn atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia at temperatures that ...

Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by "sound science" and built on consensus, the head of the body charged with regulating the divisive practice said Thursday. Deep-sea ...

A newly described species of ghost shark, Rhinochimaera costaricana, has been identified from deep waters off Costa Rica using both physical characteristics and genetic evidence.

New sediment tests from a research vessel in the Red Sea suggest that primordial deep-sea microbes may offer a glimpse of how life made energy before Earth had oxygen.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated image provided by Peng Zhou shows a Chinese submersible recovering fossilized whale bones from the deep seafloor, ...

For the first known time, a team of scientists in China filmed a strange, shrimp-like fish walking backward along the seafloor. The fish, Scalicus engyceros, is a species of armored searobin, a group ...

India could take the bold step of recognising the deep ocean not merely as a mineral reserve, but as a precious ecological asset whose value may exceed that of its mineral wealth ...

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Rising mountain peaks and sharp rock formations cover the ocean floor, with corals, sponges, fish, and tons of sea creatures clinging to their sides. Unlike mountains on land that dare climbers and ...