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 ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

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

Two-hundred and fifty years ago Captain James Cook landed at Possession Bay and took possession of South Georgia, in the name ...

For the first time, a study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego ...

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

The vast majority of our planet’s oceans remain unexplored, hiding secrets that challenge everything we thought we knew about ...

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.

Some USF faculty and students are divided on whether the protection act is a scientific necessity or simply an emotional ...

A mysterious network of tunnels carved into solid rock is forcing scientists to reconsider the limits of ancient life on ...