Mining methods, like seabed scraping and vacuuming, raise concerns about habitat destruction, sediment plumes, and potential ...

Researchers caught a close-up video of a flying sea pig (aka, a sea cucumber), and it has what looks like 50 tiny hands.

The new species were found in the East China Sea, a body of water off the eastern coast of China, south of Japan and South ...

In 2009, a research group led by Dr. Keiichi Kakui at the Faculty of Science discovered a rather unusual small crustacean ...

Researchers discovered tiny features on sculpins' fins which may enable them to cling firmly in harsh underwater environments.

Long languishing in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean, the sunken aircraft carrier USS Yorktown has held secrets for 83 ...

Anglerfish is a species about which little is known. But, after a deceased one washed up on a West Coast beach, fascination ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

“We need to understand how that process is working … because, among many other things, bacteria and phytoplankton are associated with the bottom of the oceanic ... has on other life in the ocean, ...

It helps them get oxygen while sitting at the bottom of the ocean. Many of these animals are filter feeders, and their blue blood supports their low-energy lifestyle. In some species, their blood ...