The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

But his newest find, a smooth lumpsucker, has stolen the spotlight. Perched on the railing of his ship, the fish’s swollen, ...

Fragments of seaweed are often caught in deep-sea trawls, or recorded by submarines and underwater robots during surveys of ...

In the summer of 2021, researchers with the Tropical Deep Sea Benthos Exploration Program (in operation since the 1970s), dropped trawls and dredges into the water around the French territory ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

Specimens have been collected throughout the history of Scripps since 1903, using a range of techniques from intertidal hand collecting and SCUBA to trawls and deep-sea submersibles. New specimens are ...