"The communities we observed have been there for decades, maybe even hundreds of years." Scientists make incredible discovery ...

The Challenger ... animals "bioluminesce," flashing like fireflies. They turn on headlights to see food or attract mates; anglerfish dangle wormlike glowing appendages to lure prey. Some deep-sea ...

British ship Challenger sails the globe while lowering dredges and other gear into the deep ... of animals previously unknown to science. Prince Albert of Monaco starts to probe the sea's dark ...

Finding anything at the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth, is extremely exciting for scientists.

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, meaning discovery in Chinese, is a remote-operated vehicle submersible ...