Cue up the Mission Impossible intro: Three Florida Tech students are making a mechanical 'spy' manatee to covertly learn sea cows' deepest secrets.

Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this watery realm remains a complete mystery. That's because humans have ...

A simulated picture of the cold seeps ecosystem research facility Photo: Liu Caiyu/GT. China on Friday announced the official launch of a deep-sea research megaproject in Guangzhou, South China's ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark, and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers ...

The research facility of cold-seep ecosystem, a megaproject whose launch was recently announced in South China's Guangdong Province, aims to deepen humanity's understanding of deep-sea science by ...

Undersea agriculture. Deep sea mining. Human colonies on the ocean floor. These were the dreams of Capt. George Bond, a Navy medical officer. It was the age of exploration. While NASA made front ...

Cue up the Mission Impossible intro: Three Florida Tech students are making a mechanical 'spy' manatee to covertly learn sea cows' deepest secrets.