An international team of scientists have finally explored where no other human has gone before — into the ocean abyss off ... scientists discovered monstrous creatures in the depths, 2.5 miles ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean and found that all species contained the ...

The ocean depths are home to a phantasmagoria of bizarre creatures, ranging from the footballfish ... and Exploration in the Abyss (Knopf, 1996). Click on any of the pictures below to see the ...

Imagine descending into the ocean’s deep, dark twilight zone, a realm straight out of science fiction. Here, in a place where ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

These include the sunlight zone (epipelagic), the twilight zone (mesopelagic), the midnight zone (bathypelagic), the abyssal zone (abyssopelagic), and the hadal zone (trenches) ...

In the ocean twilight zone, bioluminescent creatures paint glowing highways through the water, lighting up the abyss with a beauty and strangeness that can leave even the most seasoned scientist ...