The IUCN lists the fangtooth moray as a species of Least Concern. Slender giant morays inhabit the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the Red Sea to the western Pacific ... You can find them in shallow ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.

The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a United Nations-backed review process ...

"Deep-sea discovery calls into question the origins of life," the Scottish Association for Marine Science said in a press release to accompany the publication of the research. "Greenpeace has long ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean in the South China Sea, a robot named “discovery” searched the seafloor for life. Faxian, meaning discovery in Chinese, is a remote-operated vehicle submersible ...

It was tested in the South China Sea, where the team attached it to an arm on a submersible, which they sent 3,400 metres (34,776 feet) deep. There, the gripper collected small marine creatures ...

A 2022 peer-reviewed study of available research by leading deep-sea scientists found “no or next to no scientific knowledge” for most of the seabed targeted for mining. NEW PLAYERS IN THE DEBATE ...

As the demand for electric car batteries and smartphones grows, mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious metals such as nickel and cobalt can be found in potato ...