Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...
A deep-sea expedition off the coast of Australia has uncovered a hidden world teeming with life, including more than 100 ...
After years of deep-sea sleuthing, National Geographic Explorer Katy Croff Bell has created a treasure map. It’s not drawn on ...
A team of international and local scientists has captured incredible footage of animals hundreds of meters below the surface ...
Scientists discovered 24 new deep-sea species, including one from a completely new branch of life in the Pacific Ocean.
Researchers in Cambodia surveyed dozens of previously unexplored caves and found several species never seen before, including ...
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 ...
A veritable gold rush appears to be opening up, not in the dusty hills of California but in the deep seabeds of the Pacific Ocean — one that’s being driven by an insatiable global demand of critical ...
The deep sea is a dark, cold place. It’s just a few degrees above freezing, subject to immense pressure, and beyond the reach of the sunlight needed for photosynthesis. The life that does survive in ...
When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor. Half of Earth's oceans are ...
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 ...