An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite image of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, where 'dead zones' can ...

“ Dulcibella camanchaca is a fast-swimming predator that we named after ‘darkness’ in the languages of the peoples from the ...

In the sunlit surface ocean, known as the euphotic zone, phytoplankton fix carbon dioxide into organic matter. This process, called ocean productivity, is regulated by the supply of key nutrients ...

Characterized by darkness and intense pressure, the ocean's hadal zone seems uninhabitable, yet dozens of unique organisms call it home. Each species discovered there adds a crucial piece to the ...

Researchers exploring the extreme depths of the Pacific Ocean's Atacama Trench say they have discovered an entirely new ...