Nearly four kilometers beneath the surface of the Atlantic, a remotely operated vehicle glided through the Mar del Plata ...

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A recent Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition off the coast of Uruguay discovered at least 30 suspected new species and explored a sunken warship. By Popular Science Team Published Oct 4, 2025 10:00 AM ...

Learn how researchers used morphology and genetic analysis to reveal the identity of a mysterious golden orb found during a ...

Discover bizarre deep-sea creatures found off Australia, from a “Game of Thrones” shrimp to zombie worms, uncovered by the RV ...

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A lot of weird-looking life-forms lurk in the deep sea, and this year we got some spectacularly close looks at several of them, including a goofy Doctor Who–esque octopus, alienlike Antarctic dwellers ...

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...

Deep-sea submersible will plunge tourists 3,280 feet into the unknown By Bronwyn Thompson March 27, 2026 Deep-sea darkness is China's next tourism frontier Depositphotos View 1 Images ...

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

More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...