Earth’s deepest waters are among the most hostile environments ever explored. Extreme pressure, darkness, and scarce food have driven the evolution of creatures with highly specialized and often ...

Siphonophores are considered among the largest living structures ever observed in the ocean, yet they remain poorly understood. Unlike traditional animals, they function as colonies that behave like a ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

A deep-sea catshark (Scyliorhinus haeckelii) documented at 198 meters on the outer edge of the continental shelf, near the ...

Oil spills rarely travel more than 300 km from their source before natural processes break them down. Ixtoc I, a 1979 spill ...

Global ocean heat content increased by approximately 23 zetajoules (ZJ) in 2025, roughly 40 times annual global primary energy consumption. This is not good.