From the first sighting of a colossal squid in the wild to a seriously goofy octopus, 2025 delivered some astounding photos ...

The 30cm-long (11.8in) juvenile was spotted at a depth of 600m (1,968ft), near the South Sandwich Islands in the south ...

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As companies search underwater for resources, scientists are taking inventory of the ocean-dwelling creatures that could be ...

You are taught early in science that oxygen on Earth comes from sunlight. Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria use light to split ...

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Giant amphipod species Alicella gigantea, once thought to be very rare, is found to inhabit the majority of Earth's deep ...

Scientists could never square theory with data on how certain organisms fixed carbon. Turns out they were asking the wrong ...

Half the planet lies outside any country’s border. In those waters, rules have long been thinner than the myths: freedom to ...

A deep-sea ecologist writes that the United States’ new rush to allow deep-sea mining raises significant environmental ...