Bruce Robison was sitting in the control room of a research ship in Monterey Bay when he first saw the diaphanous deep-sea ...

“Only recently have cameras become capable of filming bioluminescence in high-resolution and in full color,” Haddock added.

Researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Nicknamed the 'mystery mollusc,' the nudibranch Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight ...

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus ...

A "remarkable" new sea slug nicknamed the “mystery mollusk” has been discovered swimming deep in the ocean's "midnight" zone.

Chinese scientists have found abiotic organic compounds in the ocean crust, shedding light on deep-sea carbon cycles and life ...

Ninety-nine percent of the world's digital communications rely on subsea cables. When they break, it could spell disaster for a whole country's internet. How do you fix a fault at the bottom of ...

A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals have an extremely small ...

Animal life is flourishing underneath the seafloor according to a new study of deep-sea hydrothermal vents, suggesting this mysterious landscape has complex ecosystems. Hydrothermal vents are ...

A deep sea robot is exploring remote underwater canyons. And the biodiverse sights are astonishing. On a 55-day expedition ...

Your support makes all the difference. A new deep-sea submersible capable of taking three people deeper than the Titanic is undergoing its first “wet test” this month. Initially reported to be ...

Why did they break one after the other? Over the following decades, as the global web of deep-sea cables expanded, their repair and maintenance has resulted in other surprising scientific ...