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Deep sea an untapped 'evolutionary engine' as dataset yields 500 million unique genes

The deep sea is a unique "evolutionary engine," with one of the richest and most unexplored sources of genetic diversity on Earth, according to a major new study that assessed its...

See What Deep-Sea Mining Actually Looks Like, Over 2 Miles Down

A mining company sent an advanced ship to try to pluck valuable minerals from the deep ocean. Here’s how it worked.

In deep oceans, evolution is supercharged. This diversity could help unlock humanity's greatest challenges

Far beneath the surface of the ocean lies the largest and least explored habitat on Earth. The deep sea is cold, dark, highly pressurized—and home to a huge amount of undiscovered...

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Journey To The Bottom Of The Ocean Reveals Jaw-Dropping Facts

We all know that that our oceans are mostly unexplored. It is amazing that we know more about the surface of Mars than about the floor of our very own oceans. Click here to contin...

31 New Species Found off Brazil Reveal a Fragile World in the Ocean’s Midwater

Learn how shipboard DNA sequencing, 3D imaging, and deep-sea tools helped researchers identify delicate ocean animals within days.

Deep Sea Creatures & Giantism

Why deep sea creatures to become gigantic as compared to their more shallow dwelling counterparts – answered. Lets face it, many deep sea creatures are scary large. Click here to c...

Expedition to Decode the Origin of the Hess Rise Is Underway

A team of international scientists has embarked on a major marine research expedition aboard the German vessel SONNE to investigate the Hess Rise.

HOW TO DIVE TO THE DEEPEST PLACE ON EARTH

Inviting along readers who are willing to plunge (in imagination) over six miles into crushing ocean depths to “perhaps encounter species no human has ever seen,” Sullivan recalls...

Scientists Travel to Unexplored Area of Atlantic Ocean and Photograph Bizarre Deep-Sea Creatures

Researchers spent 35 days exploring a remote, mountainous stretch of the Atlantic Ocean where tectonic fractures constantly reshape the seafloor and bizarre animals thrive. [Read M...

‘World’s deepest banner protest’ launched at the bottom of the sea

Deep below the ocean surface, at roughly the depth of 130 five-story buildings stacked end to end, a robot has unfurled a protest sign that reads: “LISTEN TO THE SCIENCE!” A Greenp...

Researchers Mapping Biodiversity on Indonesia’s Unexplored Seamounts

Researchers from the University of Rhode Island are contributing to an international effort to document life on Indonesia's remote tropical seamounts — underwater mountains rising...

DEEP Successfully Installs Vanguard Subsea Human Habitat In Florida Keys

DEEP has successfully installed Vanguard, the first open-ocean, subsea human habitat built, tested and deployed in the United States in more than 40 years.

First Episode Of ‘2051 Sea Odyssey’ Released

"2051 Sea Odyssey" is a STEM outreach initiative by the Divers Alert Network, DEEP, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the University of Utah, funded by the US Office of...

Dozens of otherworldly new deep-sea critters discovered — including glowing jellyfish and a ‘glass’ squid

The ocean floor has been called Earth’s "largest and least explored habitable ecosystem."

Deep Sea Isopod – A close encounter with Isopods

Here is an up close and personal encounter with deep sea isopods. Isopods look like giant insects, but they are not. Click here to continue reading on For Scuba Divers.

'It's blue'- scientists find new deep-sea octopus

On the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands, a submersible controlled by scientists came across a mysterious octopus as blue as the ocean and no bigger than a golf ball.

Previously Unexplored Arctic Seamount Reveals Potential New Species in Deep-Sea Mining Zone

Learn how likely new Arctic deep-sea species could help researchers map fragile sponge gardens and hydrothermal vents before mining plans return.

Shipwrecks Depth – An Animated Comparison

This is an awesome clip. It really puts things in their true perspective. Watch this to grasp the relative depths of well known wrecks throughout the world. Click here to continue...

Deep-sea life has a secret food source scientists never expected

Scientists discovered that extreme deep-sea pressure squeezes valuable nutrients out of sinking organic particles, providing an unexpected food source for ocean microbes. The findi...

Greenpeace robot stages deepest-ever seabed protest

While conducting a scientific survey of vulnerable and unexplored deep-sea ecosystems along the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, environmental campaign group Greenpeace deployed an underwat...

World's largest whale graveyard discovered by Chinese sub

The deepest and oldest known whale graveyard on Earth lies at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

Navy Tests Prototype Atmospheric Diving System

Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division hosted the first open water test of the Deep Sea Expeditionary with No Decompression suit in Liberty Bay, Wash.

California Water Agency Ramps Up Deep-Sea Desalination Plan

Las Virgenes Municipal Water District plans trial this fall of pod suspended at depth in Santa Monica Bay to produce desalinated water using developer OceanWell's innovative techno...