Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed ...
The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...
Researchers have uncovered over 7,500 new microbial species in the hadal zone, highlighting the extreme environmental ...
They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University along with multiple collaborating institutions including the University of Copenhagen and ...
An exploratory expedition describes two deep-sea, low-oxygen ecosystems in the Red Sea, including some surprising fish. The ...
The first phase of the MEER research was a joint effort of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Institute of Deep-sea Science ...
Relying on China's self-developed human occupied vehicle (HOV) Fendouzhe, Chinese scientists have completed an exploration of ...
Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...