Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've ...

Documentation provides one of the most detailed observations of seafloor biodiversity and habitats at these depths ...

There are some quite mysterious and strange creatures lurking in the deepest parts of the world’s oceans. Watch the latest ...

When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only the surface. Venture deeper, far below the last reach of sunlight, and you ...

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

The aquariums said its aerial survey team spotted three True's beaked whales, a species "rarely seen at the surface," while above the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the ...

New research has found that deep-sea mining in international waters could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and ...

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

We turn now to the ocean with NPR's Short Wave podcast. This story plays out in the midnight zone, which is 1,000 to 4,000 meters below the surface... (SOUNDBITE OF SUBMARINE MOVING) MA: ...Even ...

When the submarine plunged to about 1,500 meters below sea level, ecologist Jeff Drazen asked the pilots to cut the strobe lights that had been guiding them through the pitch-black waters. For a ...