"I never thought we'd see one alive." ...

The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria ...

Hidden deep beneath the Indian Ocean, researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest and largest whale graveyard, ...

The ocean’s hiding some deep secrets. An oceanic expedition off Brazil has discovered 31 otherworldly new critters, including ...

More than 8,000 people submitted name suggestions for a tiny mollusk pulled from a sunken log nearly three miles beneath the ...

A new study reveals how deep-sea isopods survive years without food using giant stomachs, slow metabolism and a gene that ...

Scientists have identified a golf-ball-sized blue octopus from deep waters near the Galápagos as a new species. The discovery ...

By Marta Serafinko June 19 (Reuters) - A pill bug dwelling under a garden pot curls its body into a tiny armored ball as self ...

Valve founder Gabe Newell is funding a €700 million research vessel designed to explore the ocean’s deepest regions and support cutting-edge marine science.

Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by "sound science" and built on consensus, the head of the body charged with regulating the divisive practice said Thursday. Deep-sea ...

Off Norway, archaeologists have located a largely preserved shipwreck that offers an unusually vivid glimpse of 18th-century trade, with Chinese porcelain still stacked on the seafloor.