Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A deep-sea expedition off the coast of Australia has uncovered a hidden world teeming with life, including ...

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Lurking in the depths of the ocean are countless species that have never been seen by humans before. As part of a project to name 1,000 of these unknown animals by 2030, 24 new species of deep-sea ...

Marine geologist Tang Limei has been making waves in the world of deep-sea exploration for more than a decade. Now she’s making a splash on social media, too. The 44-year-old, who has conducted ...

In a remarkable deep-sea breakthrough, researchers have discovered 24 new species of amphipods in the Pacific’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone—including a rare, entirely new superfamily. The findings reveal ...

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Commercial deep-sea mining hasn’t yet begun, but it soon could — with the potential to reshape vast stretches of the ocean as companies move to extract minerals from the seafloor. However, this ...

The agency found the first-ever application to mine in international waters complies with U.S. law. Foes say the move is dangerous and illegal. A bid to extract mineral-rich nodules from the bottom of ...

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From the East Pacific Rise in the Pacific Ocean to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic, researchers from the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment led the charge of ...

I spent years preparing to dive into the deepest place on earth. Only a handful of people have traveled into the depths of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles below the ocean surface. As a geologist ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...