Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...

Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

That’s just a few of the many revelations about these majestic ocean mammals that visitors will learn when they explore the ...

A 13-day survey conducted in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) found a large variety of marine life living in the region, ...

Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the director of a government innovation program said Thursday.

Until the 1970’s people thought the deepest parts of the ocean were devoid of life- then hydrothermal vents were discovered ...

Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and ...

The smallest species of whale tricks its predators by gushing red gallons of red fluid into the water when under attack ...

Orcas look like water pandas, but live up to the nickname “killer whale.” This name originates from sailors who witnessed orcas preying on whales that were far larger than themselves. These sailors ...

White sided dolphin. Image by Wikimedia commons. Echolocation is a biological sonar system that involves the production of high-frequency sound waves and the analysis of their echoes as they bounce ...

A RECENT ARTICLE in The Economist asserted that President Donald Trump “is right to go after metals in the deep sea” and that the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the intergovernmental ...

One study published in Science earlier this month found that with 44,000 deep-sea dives, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed — which is roughly the size of Yosemite ...