Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed a colossal reserve of freshwater, estimated at 670 cubic miles, ...

New research shows how deep-sea fish evolved unique body shapes depending on depth and habitat, revealing surprising ...

Fish species living in the deep sea feature a surprisingly large range of body shapes that evolved in different ways and at ...

A new study has found that deep-sea mining operations threaten ocean food chains, potentially impacting valuable fisheries.

While it is well known that climate change is heating the world's oceans, it was thought that the deep sea was safe from its ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences on the tiny animals at the core of the vast ocean food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on ...

In a patch of the Pacific’s abyssal plain, scientists a surprising phenomenon called “dark oxygen production.” ...

An analysis of mining plumes in the Pacific Ocean reveals they kick up particles sized similarly to the more nutritious tidbits that plankton eat.

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

The depths of the Arctic Ocean have warmed more than scientists expected. New research has placed the blame on warmer water ...