"We’ve been really, really slow to work through the regulatory frameworks." Researchers make disturbing discovery after dead animals wash up on coastline: 'Troubling' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Ocean microbes can use urea when ammonium is scarce. This helps them survive in poor waters and reshapes our view of the nitrogen cycle.

In doing so, Paralvinella hessleri, a tiny deep-sea worm first discovered in 1989, transforms one of the deadliest substances ...

Almost a half-mile below Monterey Bay's surface, California scientists recorded rare footage of a seven-arm octopus eating a ...

Researchers at the Natural History Museum detected a 32% drop in deep-sea biodiversity following extensive observation after ...

The rare creature, called Haliphron atlanticus, was seen by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s biodiversity and biooptics team on Nov. 6, the institute confirmed to SFGATE via email. Prior ...

The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

Looking out of the Fendouzhe submersible, more than nine kilometres below the ocean surface, Mengran Du knew she was seeing ...

For all of humanity’s ventures to outer space, we’ve yet to see 99.999% of the deep-sea floor. In the latest subaquatic news, ...

A spherical sea sponge discovered in Antarctica, Carnivorous cladorhizid, is a carnivore, trapping and devouring live animals ...

Earth’s oceans are perhaps the most beautiful and awe-inspiring natural areas on the planet, but they also hold some of the ...

One of the most attractive targets for deep sea mining advocates is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a continent-sized ...