This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

What appeared to be tentacles washed up on an Aberdeenshire beach are the remains of a deep-sea creature called a seven-arm octopus, say experts. A local member of the public spotted the arms with ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

The most transformative deep sea finding in a generation is not a single strange animal or a record-breaking trench, but proof that the abyss is a vast, living engine that rewrites what I think life ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

As of 2026, more than 80% of the world’s oceans are still unmapped and unexplored. We know more about the face of the moon ...

A new study indicates that deep-sea mining could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras, many of which are already at risk of extinction. The authors found that seabed sediment ...

Sixty-five per cent of the exploratory dives into the deep have taken place within 200 nautical miles of either the US, Japan ...