Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

Some deep-sea fish may be able to see light in a different way from most other vertebrates, according to a new study. The ...

A deep-sea mining test shows ecosystem damage can begin immediately, with more than one-third of seafloor animals lost in a single pass.

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of ...