This bootylicious 'Patrick Star' lives alongside dozens of species we've never seen before. (ROV SuBastian/ROV ...

Scientists monitoring the deep ocean near the disaster site found that animal populations declined by as much as 80 percent, ...

In a deep, dark part of the Gulf of Mexico, the number of marine animals plummeted by about 60% in the years following the ...

If you thought that the world is a strange place; then think carefully about the underwater ecosystem where truth is indeed stranger than fiction. In a recent d ...

A newly digitized collection of 3,235 brachiopods from 1,852 ocean locations preserves a century of evidence on deep-sea ...

Blub blub blub, tiny bubbles of bliss are headed up above the surface from the deep side of the ocean, carrying a message ...

DNA study identified three new Gnathophis conger eels from waters around Taiwan and corrected a previously misidentified ...

GEOMAR's expedition SO322 aboard RV SONNE is investigating the long-term environmental consequences of polymetallic nodule ...

Sea urchin harvesting in Tasmania restores kelp forests at roughly 28 cents per animal -- more than 840 times cheaper than ...

Far below the Gulf's surface, an ecological collapse has been unfolding largely out of sight over the past 16 years. A new ...

More than 70% of our planet is covered in water, but we've only explored a small fraction of what lies beneath the surface.

The immediate priority is understanding what could be lost before extraction increases.