They say we know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about the bottom of the ocean, which is what made it so ...

More recently, companies have become interested in mining these deep-sea vents for their "massive sulfide deposits" or "gas hydrates," putting a clock on ecological research, according to a study ...

Scientists from Australia and Japan studying three trenches find ‘organisms have adapted strategies to filter things out of ...

Scientists off Japan found a deep-sea creature with 18 “dark yellow eggs” and discovered a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Thousands of feet down off the coast of Japan swam a pink ...

Researchers aboard a deep-sea submarine spotted a new species on a volcanic ledge off the coast of Japan. Chen C, Tsuda M, Ishitani Y (2025) Zoosystematics and Evolution About 300 miles off the coast ...

The pristine waters surrounding Hokkaido have become the setting for an extraordinary marine encounter that has captivated ...

Meet the telescopefish, a ghostly predator with tubular eyes and a jaw that unhinges to swallow prey larger than itself.

In the deep sea, there are places where chemicals and nutrients seep out of the sediment and into the water. These chemosynthetics-based ecosystems were discovered in 1977, and in the decades since, ...