Satellite data, in other words, only gives a rough idea of what lies beneath the sea. Only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor has been carefully mapped, which means we know less about 71 percent ...

Scientists find strange sea pigs, giant sea spiders, and a butterfly-like animal beneath the Antarctic Ocean’s icy surface.

Since its discovery in 1925, only eight adult specimens have been reported, severely limiting scientists’ ability to research ...

A U.K. startup wants to be the SpaceX of the deep sea, and hopes to establish a permanent human residence on the ocean floor ...

Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology. His work focuses on the deep sea, studying the “linkages” between marine ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

Marine life in the deep ocean ... and biological recovery in a deep-sea mining track after 44 years. Mining vehicle tracks from 1979 on the Pacific Ocean floor Heriot-Watt marine biologist Dr ...

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a bizarre pig-shaped creature.

Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and delicate sea butterflies are among the bizarre animals hauled up from the ocean floor by a ... suite of marine life, and likely some new ...