Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human ...

The hadal zone starts 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) deep, and goes down as far as 11 kilometers ... The microbes also tend to find suitable nooks and crannies in the depths of the ocean and stick to them: ...

During the first migratory route, the elephant seals seek out the transition zone between two ocean fronts, where there is a lot of food available in the form of fish and squid, Beltran.

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich ... that could open the way for extraction ...

"This incredible discovery underlines the urgency of that call". The discovery was made in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a ...

Researchers found that an inactive subduction zone under the Strait of Gibraltar may begin migrating into the Atlantic Ocean, commencing the shrinking process. The zone also brings a higher risk ...

Stretching from the United States and Canada all the way to Europe, quadrillions of tiny creatures are asleep, suspended in the ocean’s twilight zone. They are Calanus finmarchicus, a type of ...