A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Blind shrimp, giant white crabs ... Sunlight penetrates no farther than a few hundred feet down, leaving the deep-sea floor as dark as the deepest cave. With no sunlight, there are no plants ...

The deep ocean is a vast reservoir of biodiversity that harbors unique species, communities, and ecosystems,” write the authors of a new study. We tend to think of the deep ocean as cold, dark, and ...

Caption Many rare seafloor species, such as these shrimp (Rimicaris hybisae) could be threatened when companies begin mining at mineral-rich sites near deep-sea hydrothermal vents.An international ...

One study sketched a landscape of living creatures in the ... “likely to be advantageous in the deep-sea environment,” wrote the team. Top predators in the deep rely on a steady supply of prey—mainly, ...