From deep sea ghost sharks to symbiotic worms and unusual crustaceans, scientists have identified 1,121 new marine species in ...

Somewhere on the dark floor of the Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between Hawaii and Mexico, a tiny crustacean has been ...

More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...

Somewhere between 200 and 3,000 metres below the surface of the Coral Sea, in canyons and on seamounts that had never been ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

Thousands of genes from deep-sea marine life are being used to create new commercial products ranging from pharmaceuticals to cosmetics. Genes are segments of DNA that provide instructions for making ...

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In 2013, a deep sea mining company named UK Seabed Resources contracted marine biologist Diva Amon and other scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to survey a section of the seafloor in ...

China's research vessel Tansuo-1, carrying the manned submersible Fendouzhe, arrived in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong ...