The expedition aboard RRS Sir David Attenborough is investigating how the trace metals iron and manganese regulate ocean ...

A dead whale sinking to the ocean floor creates a unique deep-sea ecosystem.: this whale fall provides food for scavengers, then enriches sediments for other creatures. Finally, bacteria in bones ...

Portions of the ocean outside territorial waters, including the deep seabed, are formally recognized by the UN Convention on ...

Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...

Surviving in water more than 10 times as salty as ocean water, Diplolaimelloides woaabi represents a remarkable example of multicellular resilience. The Diplolaimelloides woaabi discovery challenges ...

Deep in the Atlantic Ocean, far from any coastline and out of reach of sunlight, scientists have mapped a sprawling undersea landscape that looks uncannily like a ghostly metropolis. Towering spires, ...

Europa has a deep ocean, but a new study suggests its seafloor may be too quiet to supply the energy life needs to survive.

From different angles, EMBL researchers are looking at archaea with the hope these understudied organisms will answer questions about evolution ...