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Chinese scientists have discovered hundreds of ancient whale carcasses deep in the Diamantina Zone off the coast of Western Australia.
Beyond the sunlit ocean lies a vast abyss where organisms have to recycle every scrap available.
Robotic and autonomous underwater vehicles have collected vast quantities of footage from the deep sea, but most of it hasn’t been analysed.
How good are our current seafloor maps?
Deep-sea fish larvae combine features of both rods and cones into a single, highly specialised cell that is optimised for life in between light and darkness.
The deep ocean is not a silent, static place – it’s active, connected to the oceans above and always changing.
The momentum of COP30 and the first global agreement for marine areas beyond national jurisdiction creates a unique opportunity to further integrate the ocean, particularly the deep sea, into the climate agenda.
Deep-sea creatures from Iceland to Tasmania are more closely related than anybody realised.
Commercial mining of the deep sea could begin soon. But these metals and minerals are not scarce. Mining will be harmful and the economic benefits are overstated.
An unprecedented sighting of a “black seadevil” fish in surface waters triggered a global outpouring of empathy for the deep sea.
A new initiative by the International Seabed Authority has set an ambitious goal, and our team is one of the first to be involved.
A new database documents 16,000 proteins from deep-sea organisms that could yield new inventions.
The skate is found in deep waters and it’s not clear how fisheries might threaten the species.
Norway has become the first nation on earth to allow deep-sea mineral exploration. But opening this industry could put Norway in murky legal waters.
Deep sea metallic nodules could help us shift to clean energy. But we don’t know how much damage it will do to ecosystems
The recent tragedy of the Titan submersible bore striking parallels to one of the most widely read novels about life at sea.
Deep underwater, the Titan submersible would have been crushed in less than a second once a defect cracked the hull.
The snailfish was recently found living at depths believed physically impossible.
The discovery of the deepest fish in a Japanese trench raises the question, what else is out there? But before the mind leaps to all things dark and spooky, take a fresh look at life in the deep sea.
Top contributors
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Founding Professor of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research centre, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Ocean Exploration and Science Communication, University of Southampton
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Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Director - Institute for Conservation Biology and Environmental Management, University of Wollongong
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Curator of Fishes, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Newcastle University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Arlington
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Director of Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Biotechnology, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor in Marine Microbiology, University of East Anglia
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Lecturer in English, University of Bristol
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Lecturer, Cardiff University
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Associate professor, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington
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Director, Research Centre for Deep Sea, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)
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Himalayan geologist, Lancaster University