Most sea sponges are simple, yet ancient, animals that live in coral reef ecosystems. They feed by passively filtering ocean ...

Recent scientific expeditions have unveiled a trove of new species dwelling at the bottom of the ocean, including a ...

The Marianna Trench is the deepest area of the ocean, and therefore one of the most mysterious underwater regions in the world. The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research expedition (MEER) ...

Image source, Jialing Cai/The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census/Schmidt Ocean Institute A carnivorous "death-ball" sponge ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

Underwater footage shot off the coast of Chile during a 28-day expedition led to the discovery of 20 possible new species amid a thriving deep-sea ecosystem. The expedition, led by researchers with ...

Scientists have discovered 866 new marine species, including a guitar shark, a deep-sea mollusk with cancer treatment potential, and the first octocoral found in the Maldives, Oceanographic Magazine ...

Sixty-million-year-old rock samples from deep under the ocean have revealed how huge amounts of carbon dioxide are stored for ...