Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ...

A breakthrough discovery of oxygen production in darkness could redefine life's origins on Earth and open new frontiers in space exploration.

Coral reefs are filled with colorful ocean life. But they're in danger of dying off ... Coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean floor. But, they provide an essential ecosystem for a quarter ...

In 1977 scientists discovered that at the deepest parts of the ocean, which people had long imagined to be dark, cold, and lifeless, was a strange environment teeming with life. Marine geologist ...

Whale carcasses take decades to fully decompose and can provide food for an entire ecosystem on the dark depths of the ocean floor. Dr Adrian Glover, a Museum expert in deep-sea biodiversity, sheds ...

We’ve seen little of these oases of life in the deep ... surface of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. Scientists don’t often explore their slopes firsthand ...

We're opposing lax environmental standards ... focused mostly in the Pacific Ocean. Life on the deep ocean floor is still a mysterious realm that scientists have only just begun to inventory. They ...

They drift on ocean ... if they’re left to float through the ocean forever. Asha de Vos As a marine biologist, Asha works to educate future generations on the importance of marine life conversation.

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic ... that most of the plastic in the ocean is out of sight, either under water ...

The problem with any deep-ocean animal is that not much is known about their lives. You have to put down expensive submersibles and observe them over a long period of time. Collections of them are ...