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 ...

In the past, scientists thought of the deep ocean as a cold, dead place. While the region—generally considered to be everything between 200 and 11,000 meters in depth—is undoubtedly cold, it ...

Cold-water coral traps itself on mountains in the deep sea. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 02 / 240214122625.htm ...

The deep sea contains more than 90% of the water in our oceans, but only about a third of all fish species. Scientists have long thought the explanation for this was intuitive -- shallow ocean ...

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 ...

Sunlight disappears, temperatures drop, and pressure increases rapidly. It’s a cold, ... these deep-sea creatures highlight how much we still have to learn about life in the ocean’s depths.

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 ...