The oarfish is one of the longest bony fish in the ocean, yet it spends most of its life far beyond human observation. When it appears near the surface, stories quickly link the sighting to ...
Two years ago, a tragedy caught the world’s attention … but not in a particularly sympathetic way. The fatal implosion of submersible Titan on its descent to the deep-sea tourist destination of the ...
A new study indicates that deep-sea mining could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras, many of which are already at risk of extinction. The authors found that seabed sediment ...