Rare sperm whale tooth found at a Copper Age site in Iberia offers unprecedented insight into how ancient humans exploited marine resources.

In a tiny, high-tech submersible sunk deeper than the height of Mount Everest, scientists have discovered a flourishing ...

Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a manned ...

Scientists present at the latest effort to hash out international rules for deep-sea mining say it's unclear if it's possible ...

Known to only live in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Solumbellula appeared in the Pacific for the first time to ...

While scientists have known that tiny microbes have been prospering in the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean, a new voyage ...

A new eco-friendly plastic called LAHB has shown it can biodegrade even in the extreme environment of the deep ocean, unlike ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with a sudden wave of volcanic sediment, leaving them suffocated.

Trawlers off southern India caught a deep-sea creature with a regrown tail later identified by scientists as a new species, a study said.

In the depths of Earth's briny waters lurk some truly strange deep-sea creatures Rare and remarkable deep-sea creatures ...

TOKYO -- Japan will extract rare earth minerals from an offshore deposit in a first-of-its-kind pilot project that will begin January next year, Nikke ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and sharks, a major piece of industry-funded research found Thursday.