An encounter with one such creature was documented last year. Deep under the Pacific Ocean, marine scientists recorded a sight rarely seen by humans: an octopus billowy-bouncing across the seafloor at ...

By one count America spends 150 times more on space exploration than ocean research. Scientists have mapped almost every ...

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Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human ...

The hadal zone represents one of the last great frontiers in marine science, accounting for 45% of the total ocean depth range ... organisms at hadal depths and linkages to the better known abyssal ...

A woman with weird superpowers, a turtle with obsessive-compulsive disorder and a cloud with rain incontinence on an unusual journey to the depths of the ocean.

Now, a new exhibit lets visitors jump straight into the strangest layer of the ocean, bringing the creatures that live in the "twilight zone" to the surface of ARTECHOUSE'S walls. "Twilight Zone ...

On land, we're familiar with heat waves and cold snaps. But the deep sea also experiences prolonged periods of hot and cold.

Artechouse art center and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution collaborated on the spectacle, called Twilight Zone: Hidden Wonders of the Ocean. Maxim Adams has the story.

Focus: Studying biodiversity in regions of interest for deep-sea mining Funding: Natural Environment Research Council, UK Seabed Resources Ltd, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, The Metals Company ...