Zombie worms have vanished from Pacific whale bones off British Columbia. Scientists link this mystery to low oxygen and warn ...

The most transformative deep sea finding in a generation is not a single strange animal or a record-breaking trench, but ...

(CNN) — Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed.

Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep sea creatures on a newly exposed seafloor after an iceberg broke off near the Antarctic. The area, which had never before been ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

Deep sea ecosystems are some of the most mysterious and unexplored regions of the Earth that reside more than 650 feet below sea level while reaching depths of 36,000 feet. They are characterized by ...