When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor.
In 1960, a time before humans made the giant leap for humankind as Neil Armstrong lay his foot on the moon, two researchers explored the deepest point of Earth– the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean ...
Sinking clumps of dead ocean life have been shown to leak up to half their carbon and more than half their nitrogen when ...
Jessica Kolbusz — an oceanographer at the Minderoo-University of Western Australia Deep-Sea Research Center — spotted an ...
The first shark ever documented in Antarctic waters was captured on camera at 1,600 feet deep in near-freezing temperatures.
A photographer captured this extraordinary site where whales' bodies lie in the shallows, with troubling repercussions for the deep oceans.
A deep-sea camera captured the first-ever shark recorded in Antarctic waters - a 10- to 13-foot sleeper shark swimming 1,608 feet below the surface.
The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...