Researchers have discovered evidence of oxygen production in the deep Pacific Ocean, independent of sunlight and living ...

You are taught early in science that oxygen on Earth comes from sunlight. Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria use light to split water and release oxygen, shaping the atmosphere and making complex life ...

More than a century after it sank, the RMS Titanic continues to change in ways that are not only structural but also ...

We opened a window into our country’s biodiversity only to find there are so many more windows left to be opened.” ...

The ocean is home to some of the strangest-looking creatures in the world. It seems that the deeper you go, the stranger the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A research team led by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered extraordinary deep-sea life in one of the ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

I've been to the Mariana Trench. The choice is clear: Protect one of earth's last frontiers or destroy it before we even understand what we're losing.

Scientists propose that eukaryotes formed when an Asgard archaeon entered into a close partnership with an alphaproteobacterium. Over time, the two organisms became permanently linked. The ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

Sinking clumps of dead ocean life have been shown to leak up to half their carbon and more than half their nitrogen when ...