A photographer captured this extraordinary site where whales' bodies lie in the shallows, with troubling repercussions for the deep oceans.

The scientists examined the lineages of two groups of bivalves—marine invertebrates that include clams, oysters, mussels, and ...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute observed the bumpy snailfish (Careproctus colliculi) swimming near the seafloor ...

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 ...

Far below the reach of sunlight, the deep ocean is stitched together by pockets of warmth and chemistry that function like underwater cities. Scientists have spent decades tracing these hidden oases, ...

We were not expecting to see this level of biodiversity in the Argentine deep sea, and are so excited to see it teeming with life.” ...

What is this? Look at that range of temperatures between Monday and Friday of the last full week of February NEW YORK – An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom ...

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food, and lack of sunlight can ...

Sinking clumps of dead ocean life have been shown to leak up to half their carbon and more than half their nitrogen when ...

A better model for governance of the ocean commons can be found in the nuclear test-ban treaty agreed in 1963. Nobody could ...

The ocean is home to some of the strangest-looking creatures in the world. It seems that the deeper you go, the stranger the ...