Scientists diving to astounding depths in two oceanic trenches in the northwest Pacific have discovered thriving communities ...

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the ...

More than 1,000 people claim to have seen the creature, but the most widely accepted ‘proof’ is a fake photograph.

Santa Barbara’s waterfront played host to history this past weekend as members of the storied Explorers Club gathered to honor Dr. Robert Fisher — a pioneering oceanographer who, at 100 years old, is ...

The deep sea’s brightest glow-in-the-dark creature, the Tomopteris helgolandica, creates a natural light show that rivals our most advanced human technologies. This transparent marine worm emits ...

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

The deep seas have long captured human imagination, with their eerie, dark depths and mysterious creatures. However, what we once imagined as mythical sea monsters, such as the Kraken or giant sea ...

The BBC’s Climate and Science correspondent Georgina Rannard explains why we know so little about what’s going on in the deepest parts of the ocean and some of the discoveries that have been made ...