Many otherworldly deep-sea creatures, though, are so beautiful and mysterious that you won't believe they exist. Even in the ...

Named for its hairy pincers that resemble the legendary abominable snowman, the yeti crab was discovered near deep-sea hydrothermal vents. These crustaceans farm bacteria on their “hairy” arms, which ...

Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...

A black seadevil anglerfish has captured − and broken − hearts across the globe after the small deep-sea creature swam to the surface in Spain's Canary Islands just before dying. A TikTok user ...

BENGALURU: India’s first move towards deep sea exploration was successfully conducted by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai. The maiden manned harbour trial of the much-a ...

China is advancing its deep-sea ambitions with plans for a research station 2,000 meters beneath the South China Sea, a region rich in resources and contested by multiple nations. The facility ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Animals living in one of Earth’s most extreme environments—beneath the bottom of the sea—are not just making the best of the situation, according to new research. The animals are actually ...

China has officially greenlit the creation of a new deep-sea research facility in the South China Sea, an important step for both scientific exploration and geopolitical strategy. Positioned 2,000 ...

A group of Spanish marine researchers has reportedly captured the first-ever footage of a rare deep-sea anglerfish swimming in daylight. The extraordinary sighting took place off the Canary ...

A deep-sea anglerfish was recently spotted swimming in broad daylight in the Canary Islands. The sighting is rare as the fish typically stays in the depths of the ocean below the sunlight zone.