According to NBC 6 in South Florida, an Argentine-led team of researchers recorded — among other finds — an incredibly rare giant phantom jellyfish while conducting deep-sea research between Buenos ...

In the summer of 2024, an expedition ventured to the depths of the ocean, navigating through waters 31,000 feet deep (for reference, the Titanic rests roughly 12,500 feet below the surface). The ...

We were not expecting to see this level of biodiversity in the Argentine deep sea, and are so excited to see it teeming with ...

Deep sea ecosystems are some of the most mysterious and unexplored regions of the Earth that reside more than 650 feet below sea level while reaching depths of 36,000 feet. They are characterized by ...

(CNN) — Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed.

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it ...

A dead whale sinking to the ocean floor creates a unique deep-sea ecosystem.: this whale fall provides food for scavengers, then enriches sediments for other creatures. Finally, bacteria in bones ...

The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and ...