As they reviewed the hundreds of hours of footage, researchers noticed several instances of deep-sea fish seemingly swimming backward. Were they seeing that right? For years, scie ...

Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck of the research vessel Rachel Carson and lowers it into Monterey Bay’s choppy ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

Rising mountain peaks and sharp rock formations cover the ocean floor, with corals, sponges, fish, and tons of sea creatures ...

They scuttle around the seafloor in the pitch-black depths of the ocean, scavenging on the remains of fish, crab, sponges and other organic matter that fall down ... look to exploit the deep ...

researchers pulled cores from between 2,100 and 2,500 feet down. Inside the cores were fossilized remains — and a species new to science. When the researchers put the deep-sea sediment through a ...