Life in the deep ocean evolves under crushing pressure, scarce food, cold water, and darkness that sunlight never reaches.
A company called Orpheus Ocean wants to go “deep for cheap.” Smack dab between Australia and South America, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel Rainier is ...
In the deep sea near the Mariana Trench and Hawaii, a new Star Wars-like species was discovered. Polina Silivanova via Unsplash Not all new species discoveries are met with pomp and circumstance.
Off the coast of Massachusetts’s Cape Cod on an unseasonably warm autumn day, something resembling a portly yellow dolphin turns on a dime before scooting off in the opposite direction. The nimble new ...
When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining. As an early-career deep-sea ...