In May 2018, the island of Mayotte, between Madagascar and Mozambique, began to experience a series of earthquakes that led ...

Scientists named 1,121 new marine species in a single year, including a deep-sea ghost shark and a worm that lives inside a ...

Bathymetry of a known caldera, Niuatahi, in the Tongan archipelago. (NOAA Vents Program) Deep beneath the ocean waves, ...

Scientists have found microplastics speckling the waters of the Mariana Trench, known for being the deepest of any ocean trench, and at every level of the sea. The researchers published their findings ...

A project to chart the deep ocean just revealed 19,000 hidden ancient volcanoes, and still nearly three-quarters of the ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Often called "ghost sharks," Chimaeras are among the most mysterious inhabitants of the deep ...

Huzzah! The mystery of an unidentified golden object that had been discovered on the ocean floor off Alaska’s Pacific Coast ...

Before recent findings, goblin sharks were only recorded after being hooked on a fishing line and hauled to the surface, dying shortly after.

New initiative identifies 10,000 target locations to create the first representative visual record of the deep sea. (Saunderstown, RI — April 1, 2026) Ocean Discovery League (ODL) announces the launch ...

A new species of bacteria has been discovered off the coast of Oʻahu, shedding light on how unseen microbial life connects Hawaiʻi's land and sea ecosystems. Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi ...

The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.

Researchers used a process called symbolic regression to derive the equations from a biogeochemical model of the ocean.