Giant amphipod species Alicella gigantea, once thought to be very rare, is found to inhabit the majority of Earth's deep ...
Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea ...
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Deep ocean hot spots packed with heat are making the strongest hurricanes and typhoons more likely—and more dangerous. These ...
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with the Southern Marine Science and Engineering ...
Scientific divers have navigated a series of treacherous dives more than 330 feet deep in an attempt to unravel the mysteries of deep ocean reefs. They’re finding new species — and evidence of both cl ...
Stanford researchers have uncovered evidence that deep underwater earthquakes can spur the growth of massive phytoplankton ...
Scientists could never square theory with data on how certain organisms fixed carbon. Turns out they were asking the wrong ...
Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...
The ocean covers most of our planet, yet we’ve explored only a tiny part of it. Beneath the surface are places so dark, deep, ...
The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...
New study explains how winter sea ice and melting ice shelves control the formation of deep ocean water in Antarctica.