A woman was dubbed a heroine after she rescued an injured seagull that had been stuck in fishing line for more than five ...

The deep-sea fish ended up with glowing lures not just to snag meals, but also to attract mates, a new study finds.

After a rough night at sea, Tegwen Ravizé counts his modest catch of octopus in the port of Quiberon, a picturesque peninsula ...

Lurking in the depths of the ocean are countless species that have never been seen by humans before. As part of a project to name 1,000 of these unknown animals by 2030, 24 new species of deep-sea ...

In a remarkable deep-sea breakthrough, researchers have discovered 24 new species of amphipods in the Pacific’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone—including a rare, entirely new superfamily. The findings reveal ...

Commercial deep-sea mining hasn’t yet begun, but it soon could — with the potential to reshape vast stretches of the ocean as companies move to extract minerals from the seafloor. However, this ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can’t reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...

The Trump administration is moving to open federal waters surrounding American Samoa to deep-sea mining despite widespread opposition from leaders and environmental advocates from the U.S. territory.

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 ...

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A coalition of authorities is deploying technology to try to locate the wreck of a fishing boat that sank last month off Massachusetts, killing all seven aboard. But winter ...

Gryphon Orfanos, who in the past worked on the fishing vessel "Lily Jean," stands on the pier in Gloucester of the homeport of the fishing boat that went missing with seven onboard. (Charles Krupa/AP) ...