Researchers have identified four new species of deep-sea "worms" that feature spectacular iridescent scales on their back. A team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of ...

Seafloor animals decreased by 37% in a deep-sea mining exploration zone, a landmark report has found. Scientists from the ...

A chemical boundary in the deep sea may have helped shape abyssal ecosystem composition based on body type. The discovery has implications for how these communities could be affected by climate change ...

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Scientists from the Natural History Museum (NHM), University of Gothenburg and National Oceanography Centre spent more than five years studying how biodiversity could be affected by deep-sea mining.