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This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how scientists view life in the deep.

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With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an unnamed seamount. Despite never appearing on a chart, this underwater forest has ...

Deep sea discovery where 'Moses parted Red Sea' could change what we know about life on Earth ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, ...

Ancient microbial activity preserved in wrinkled seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where traces of early life ...