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In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have found thriving ecosystems over 31,000 feet beneath the northwest Pacific Ocean, home to the deepest chemosynthetic life ever recorded. An international ...

These three fish are freaks, phantoms and mysteries of the deep. Here’s what we’ve learned from the rare glimpses we’ve had of their lives. The deep sea is one of Earth’s final frontiers. Given its ...

In James Cameron's latest Imax 3-D undersea adventure, an interdisciplinary crew of eager young scientists joyrides around in submersibles like 21st-century Verne voyagers, exclaiming about the ...

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 world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of the deep sea, marine life is far more globally connected than previously ...