The Schmidt Ocean Institute's ROV SuBastian — a robot fitted with a slew of scientific instruments and capable of descending ...

Microbes near volcanic vents use a secret metabolic shortcut, the rTCA cycle, to survive extreme conditions and support ...

STRANGE creatures dredged up from the Antarctica seafloor by scientists may have previously been undiscovered. Australian ...

Imagine a place on our planet so vast, so mysterious, that it has no owner. Picture a realm teeming with bizarre life forms, ...

A team of marine scientists has uncovered what appears to be a previously unknown species of sea squirt during a deep-sea ...

An entire world lives deep under the ocean’s surface, far from human notice and as bustling as any city. Animals such as tubeworms and clams live crowded around plumes of methane that bubble up ...

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New DNA probes allow for efficient surveying of the hidden lives of squids and octopuses in the deep sea. This development provides an effective tool for marine ecological research and conservation ...

Researchers created DNA tools that detect deep-sea marine animals like squids and octopuses by analyzing ocean water.

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a ...