Take a deep dive into the ocean’s secrets. ExtremeTech reveals its hidden layers and life forms. Discover the depths of our planet today.

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea creatures—including a “mystery mollusk,” a bioluminescent jellyfish and a “s ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...

they look like fairly standard fish, with wide heads that taper back toward slender tails. Why such a drastic change in appearance? It all comes down to pressure. Since it lives in the deep ocean ...

Life down there plays by a completely different set of rules, with creatures that have adapted in ways we can barely imagine. Just when scientists think they’ve seen it all, the ocean proves ...

For too long, Humpback whales' urinary contributions to the ocean have been overlooked. Photograph By Martin Van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 In the deep blue ... breaking these down to release ...

When Hans Hartman, a civil engineer, attempted to film the ocean depths in 1917, he pioneered what would become the first deep-sea ROV ... “the operator to go down into the water with a camera ...

Due to the extreme conditions in the deep sea, its ecosystems and high biodiversity (made up mostly of small organisms living in the sediment) are particularly sensitive to disturbances.

As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep sea, a showdown is underway over when and whether to allow mining of ...