A new study reveals a profound glimpse into the strange and diverse organisms living nearly 10 kilometers below the surface off Japan’s coast. Over a two-month period, an international team of ...

The largest aggregation of fishes ever recorded in the abyssal deep sea was discovered by a team of oceanographers from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, ...

Marine biologists have long been puzzled by the fact that marine snow does not supply enough food to support all the animals and microbes living in deep-sea sediments. A new article shows that blooms ...

The researchers, including Leitner, Jennifer Durden from NOC and UH Mānoa professors Jeffrey Drazen and Craig Smith, made the observation on an expedition to the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ). The CCZ ...

Abyssal plains are wide, flat areas of the deep seafloor. In the past, abyssal plains were commonly viewed as “ocean deserts” of little value to explorers or scientists. As deep-sea exploration ...

The largest aggregation of fishes ever recorded in the abyssal deep sea was discovered by a team of oceanographers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH, USA), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research ...

The largest aggregation of fishes ever recorded in the abyssal deep sea was discovered by a team of oceanographers during an expedition in the Clarion Clipperton Zone. The largest aggregation of ...