Life thrives in extreme deep-sea conditions, with new discoveries revealing unique ecosystems powered by chemosynthesis.

In the 1870s, the British ship HMS Challenger found deep-sea organisms while dredging and trawling. The area between 1,000m and 4,000m is called the Bathypelagic or Midnight Zone.

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the ...

Despite growing interest in deep-sea mining, much of the deep ocean, particularly the midwater zone, remains poorly understood. A 2023 study in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone found that 88% to 92% of ...

Environment Deep-sea life is still recovering from mining activity 40 years ago The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when researchers revisited it in 2023 ...

Similar deep-sea volcanoes found on Earth support microbial life that lives inside solid rock without sunlight and oxygen. Some of these microbes, called thermophiles, live at temperatures hot ...

A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of the deep sea, marine life is far more globally connected than ...

TOKYO (AP) — The world's deepest-diving submarine has disappeared in the choppy Pacific Ocean off Japan, a setback to deep-sea research on everything from earthquakes to rare bacteria.

A new study published today in Science Advances shows just how little we know about the deep sea. According to the research, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor—an area ...

World ‘Flourishing’ deep-sea life found when Antarctic iceberg breaks off. ‘Untouched beauty’ By Lauren Liebhaber March 21, 2025 3:47 PM ...