Explore the astonishing discoveries scientists have made deep within the ocean. This video reveals bizarre creatures thriving ...

Learn how a dramatic climate shift in the Pacific may have wiped out an entire underwater ecosystem deep below the Galápagos ...

Scientists have documented animal life inside the oceanic crust for the first time, uncovering tube worms, bristle worms, limpets, and snails in fluid-filled cavities beneath the Pacific seafloor. The ...

Huzzah! The mystery of an unidentified golden object that had been discovered on the ocean floor off Alaska’s Pacific Coast ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-water corals in the Galapagos region vanished for more than 1,000 years before ...

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 ...

New research shows La Niña may have driven the collapse of deep-sea corals in the Galápagos, lasting over 1,000 years.

Thousands of feet deep, parts of the seafloor are covered in polymetallic nodules. The potato-sized formations are being targeted by mining companies because of the metals they contain. (NOAA Ocean ...