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A standout discovery was this new predatory sponge. Its spherical form is covered in tiny hooks that trap prey.

The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of ...

Scientists are revolutionizing how new marine species are described through the Ocean Species Discoveries initiative. Using advanced lab techniques, researchers recently unveiled 14 new species from ...

Documentation provides one of the most detailed observations of seafloor biodiversity and habitats at these depths ...

Marine animals living in the cold, dark depths of the ocean are interconnected across the world by a hidden “superhighway”, a groundbreaking new study suggests. The research, published in the journal ...

There are some quite mysterious and strange creatures lurking in the deepest parts of the world’s oceans. Watch the latest ...

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine ...

Scientists from Australia and Japan studying three trenches find ‘organisms have adapted strategies to filter things out of ...

Scientists caution that unchecked mining could disrupt ocean food webs from the depths to dinner plates worldwide.