Deep-sea creatures exhibit gigantism, with football-sized eyes and van-sized sponges thriving in crushing darkness. These ...

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

A newly discovered predatory “death-ball” sponge in the Southern Ocean hunts small prey with tiny hooks, revealing surprising ...

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

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies to date, and peer-reviewed results have ...

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, ...

The vast array of organisms in the deep sea remains a mystery to humans. Now, marine biologists can add one more puzzle to the list. A collection of odd materials was discovered nearly four miles ...

There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the ...

The deep sea has many new discoveries waiting for us, including a newly discovered species called the "death ball" sponge.

NEW YORK (AP) — An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of ...

Deep-sea creatures often look like they stepped off a sci-fi set, with wild shapes, glowing body parts, and features that ...

A new report reveals the results of a study exploring biodiversity in a region targeted for seabed mining—capturing baseline ...