Known as the Sargasso Sea, sailors have crossed it for centuries, but few notice the border when they slip into glassy indigo ...

When they are injured, deep-sea creatures called comb jellies can fuse their bodies together to become one. Their nervous ...

This sea urchin, found in the deep-sea Clarion Clipperton Zone, is one of many diverse species living at depths of up to 18,000 feet. Spanning 1.7 million square miles of ocean from Hawaii to ...

These are the five deepest shipwrecks ever discovered, including the USS ‘Samuel B. Roberts,’ which went to the depths of the ...

In 2023, an associate professor from the University of South Florida named Joseph Dituri, known as “Dr. Deep Sea,” broke the Guinness World Record for living underwater while residing at the ...

Despite covering over 70% of Earth’s surface, the vast majority of the deep sea remains unexplored. In fact, scientists have now revealed that humans have directly observed less than 0.001% of ...

Led by the University of Delaware’s Andrew Wozniak, associate professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy, a team of ...

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.

DENG YONGAN/CHINA DAILY In a breakthrough to keep carbon dioxide permanently locked away, China has built a secure "prison" for the greenhouse gas deep beneath the South China Sea. Located about ...

Deep Blue Sea director Renny Harlin just cannot keep away from murky waters, as the director is set to helm an upcoming horror movie about a killer orca. Harlin, best known for his 1999 killer ...

Much of its seafloor exists in something of a liminal zone: too shallow and close to the shore to draw interest from deep-sea mining companies but still too deep to be reachable by conventional ...

Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this watery realm remains a complete mystery. That's because humans have seen ...