The rockhead poacher is a little fish with a big pit in its head. The divot may be like a drum, making sound that rises above ...

Scientific studies show substantial reductions in deep-sea biodiversity following mining tests, with impacts potentially lasting decades. Governments are split between environmental caution and the ...

Lauren Foster of Mocksville is a rarity on the tournament fishing circuit. Most everyone else who competes is male. Sport fishing is a hobby Foster shares with her husband, Matt, and their 16-year-old ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the deep sea. However, researchers still don't know very much about the ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

How companies that mine copper, ore, and even nickel, are betting on the sea floor to find such rare earths. Rare-earth elements help power our everyday electrical devices, and that’s because most ...

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Anglerfish are some of the most bizarre and fearsome ...

Beneath the waters off Papua New Guinea lies an extraordinary deep-sea environment where scorching hydrothermal vents and cool methane seeps coexist side by side — a pairing never before seen. This ...

Nov. 6 (UPI) --In American Samoa, the ocean is life -- but that life is under siege. The U.S. territory, marooned in the heart of the Pacific, faces a triple threat of climate change, industrial ...

Deep in Jamaican waters, we pull up beasts from 1200ft below and cook them fresh on the spot. Big catches, beautiful views, and unbeatable flavor make this one epic fishing day. After being arrested, ...

Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've already discovered 30 new deep-sea creatures. Reading time 2 minutes The deep ...