By Elizabeth Claire Alberts New research has found that deep-sea mining in international waters could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras — many of which are already at risk of ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

The species they assessed included iconic examples such as the whale shark, manta ray, and the megamouth shark, and also many lesser known, but just as interesting deep-sea species, such as the pygmy ...

The Pygmy Shark (Euprotomicrus bispinatus), the world’s second smallest shark species and one of the species with a high overlap with proposed deep sea mining. The habitat of thirty species of sharks, ...

Deep sea mining has disastrous consequences for marine life, many of which are still unknown to oceanographers.

The M.B. Miller County Pier in Panama City Beach, Florida, is the perfect spot for sunrise and sunset, fishing, and enjo ...

After years of work, the CSIRO officially confirms the discovery of a glowing lantern shark and two armour-less crab species.

Two tiny new species, a porcelain crab and a lantern shark, were discovered during a 2022 deep-sea expedition off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast in the Gascoyne Marine Park, recent research confir ...

"It's suspected that they use bioluminescence to communicate with each other." This is an Inside Science story. Forget the white whale -- some of the most rarely seen albinos on the planet are ...

Shark sightings in the Sea of Marmara have been on the rise recently, with social media users sharing footage of sharks caught in fishing nets or spotted near beaches. Counterintuitively, this ...

HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire teenager on a deep-sea fishing trip this week hauled in a 177-pound (80 kilogram) Atlantic halibut, a fish so big that it weighed more than him and could be a ...