The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared on TODAY.com, The Forward and The Daily Orange. SEA LIFE ...

The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

Scientists say sea monster is a new kind of animal. This unidentified specimen belonging within Relicanthidae is a sea creature that was previously thought to be a giant sea anemone (order Actiniaria) ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists carrying out the largest study of its kind say. They found that the number of ...

A new report reveals the results of a study exploring biodiversity in a region targeted for seabed mining—capturing baseline data, tracking natural changes and assessing the impacts of a polymetallic ...

Scientists in Singapore found a sea animal with 96 arms and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative beach in Singapore. Photo from Christoph Theisinger via Unsplash ...

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Residents of a South African harbor town were left stunned — and rather charmed — by the unexpected visit of a large sea animal. In a video uploaded to CNN's TikTok account in late May, a massive ...