The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...

Scientists have captured the first-ever footage of a rare southern sleeper shark in Antarctic waters, reshaping what we know about life in extreme oceans.

The ‘Stygiomedusa gigantea’ was recorded at a depth of 250 meters. Its four arms can reach up to 10 meters in length ...

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on ...

The chiton was first discovered in 2024 in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench at a depth of 5,500 meters. Ferreiraella populi belongs ...

In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways Christian Elliott A variety of marine creatures and unique features can be found in the ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of ...

“Going up in space is relatively easy compared to going deep into the ocean,” said Sylvia Earle, 90, an oceanographer and ...

Dr. Amon, a marine biologist, is the director of SpeSeas, an ocean conservation group based in Trinidad and Tobago, and a researcher and adviser at the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory at the ...

Almost three-quarters of our world is covered in saltwater, and, on average, the ocean is about 12,100 feet or 2.3 miles deep. But in certain places, the sea floor plummets to truly astonishing depths ...

Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, sports a shaggy mop of hair, a rakish beard and a leather bomber jacket with a palm-sized, poly-metallic nodule in its pocket. Aside from setting off metal ...

What's at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and how do we know? How deep does the ocean go? We'll answer these questions and more in this deep dive into the world's oceans. Come on in: The water's ...