The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

On Dorset’s edge, where chalk cliffs meet restless tides, a farewell on camera is quietly setting big plans in motion. A film ...

Scientists have discovered 30 new deep-sea species in the Southern Ocean, including the ominously nicknamed “death-ball” ...

The Discovery Channel is getting in on the celebration of the 50th anniversary of "Jaws" when its annual "Shark Week" hits the air this week. The goal of "Shark Week" has always been education and ...

Earth's vast oceanic biodiversity remains largely unexplored, with only a fraction of an estimated two million total living marine species formally named and described. A significant challenge is the ...

The Marianna Trench is the deepest area of the ocean, and therefore one of the most mysterious underwater regions in the world. The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research expedition (MEER) ...

Strange organisms that get their energy from chemical reactions instead of the sun have been discovered at the bottom of ocean trenches up to 31,000 feet deep in the northwest Pacific between Russia ...

Bigelow Laboratory Senior Reserach Scientist John Burns, who is leading the team that just received a significant award to advance new technology for ocean discovery, fixes a device on the deep-sea ...

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches, researchers said in a newly published paper. The deep-sea trenches, also called Hadal ...