The ocean is home to some of the creepiest animals out there. It feels like the deeper you go in the water, the stranger and ...

When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only the surface. Venture deeper, far below the last reach of sunlight, and you ...

There are thousands of crab species, each with its own unique features. While we think of crabs as beach creatures, there are ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the research vessel Falkor (too) have spotted rare Antarctic squid, discovered ...

A deep-sea mining test shows ecosystem damage can begin immediately, with more than one-third of seafloor animals lost in a single pass.

In July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through the eyes of an underwater robot as they explored the Mar del Plata Canyon.

A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 meters in search of new species, ...

The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to bizarre deep-sea species, these discoveries show just how much of the ...

An outline of "research on deep-sea fauna and pollutants in Nansei Islands, 2001-2004" / Gento Shinohara ... [et al.] -- Preliminary report on deep water hydrozoan species collected off the Nansei ...

Recently, a European research team, through the analysis of data collected from an industrial trial, discovered that deep-sea mining leads to a sharp ...

Outline of "Research on deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific Coast of northern Japan" / Hiroshi Saito, Masaki Ito and Toshihiko Fujita -- Preliminary report on deep water hydrozoan species ...