More than 5,000 animal species previously unknown to science live in a pristine part of the deep sea. Their home — called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone — sits in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean ...

About 90 percent of species found in the Clarion Clipperton Zone have never been identified, yet they may be at risk from mining for minerals such as cobalt and nickel. This sea urchin, found in the ...

Scientists in Singapore found a sea animal with 96 arms and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative beach in Singapore. Photo from Christoph Theisinger via Unsplash ...

How severely the world’s plastic waste crisis is affecting marine wildlife is not fully understood, despite decades of research and gruesome images of whales’ bellies filled with plastic and a turtle ...

Shark researchers working off the eastern coast of New Zealand have made an illuminating discovery. In a new study, published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, the scientists found that ...

What's the rarest ocean animal? Discover the rare and endangered ocean animals along with those that are rare because they're elusive. The rarest ocean animal is the vaquita — Spanish for “little cow” ...

In 2020, Japan performed the first successful test extracting cobalt crusts from the top of deep-sea mountains to mine cobalt -- a mineral used in electric vehicle batteries. Not only do directly ...

A new report examines how plastic waste affects marine wildlife. By Catrin Einhorn How severely the world’s plastic waste crisis is affecting marine wildlife is not fully understood, despite decades ...