Venture beneath the surface of the ocean and you'll find a world as alien as any far-flung destination. In the darkness and ...

Imagine a world where sunlight never touches the ocean floor, where bizarre creatures drift through inky black waters, and ...

FILE - This undated photo released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows deep-sea spiral coral during a dive on the New England Seamount chain in the North Atlantic Ocean.

But most animals that light up are found in the depths of the ocean. In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Scientists from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the National Center for ...

By: Paulina Barnjak and Dylan Long The affirmative In the age of accelerating climate change, collapsing ecosystems and ...

Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for ores ...

and the largest in the Red Sea. Located in Difat Farasan, also known as the Farasan Bank near the border between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the deep waters were found to be inhabited by corals, fish, and ...