The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

From giant tubeworms to fangtoothed fish, there are tons of terrifying creatures lurking in the deep sea. There’s the giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus), which can grow over a foot long and is ...

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Here are 10 of the strangest deep-sea creatures ever discovered in the Earth's oceans. By definition, the deep sea is any part of the ocean deeper than 200 meters (656 feet).

More than 5,500 deep-sea species reside in the area of the Pacific known as the Clarion Clipperton Zone, and roughly 90 percent of them have yet to be described by science, according to a new study.

Related: 10 bizarre deep sea creatures found in 2022. The biodiversity within the CCZ is very high. The species in the checklist belong to 27 phyla that can be further divided into 49 classes, ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and ...

Perhaps the animals can settle on the sediment after all. Or the sediment may have been cleared away from the area by deep-sea currents. So far, no one has been back to make any follow-up ...

A guitar-shaped shark, a fan-like coral and a venomous deep-sea snail equipped with harpoon-like teeth are among 866 previously unknown species discovered as part of an ambitious effort to ...

Fossilized skulls of semi-aquatic thallatosuchian species (A and B) next to a fully aquatic metriorhynchid skull (C). Credit: Sven Sachs. ... evolution saved us from deep sea crocodiles.