Giant sea spiders, octopuses, ice fish, corals, and sponges—some likely to be hundreds of years old—were discovered in a ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

Many otherworldly deep-sea creatures, though, are so beautiful and mysterious that you won't believe they exist. Even in the shallow, many creatures are both eerie and splendid with amazing skills, ...

A scientific debate has emerged regarding the possibility of producing 'dark oxygen' without sunlight ... "Greenpeace has long campaigned to stop deep sea mining from beginning in the Pacific ...

Environmentalists said the presence of dark oxygen showed just how little is known about life at these extreme depths, and supported their case that deep-sea mining posed unacceptable ecological ...