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New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t Jack Tamisiea Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea ...

World Octopus Day 2026 celebrates one of the ocean’s most fascinating animals. Meet the bizarre Dumbo octopus, whose ear-like ...

A magical new film captures the secret life of the deep sea in a stretch of the ocean at risk from industrial mining ...

The deep sea is a distinctive environment, distinguished from surface waters by darkness, cold and immense pressures. Global data reveal how much more connected deep-sea life is than life in the ...

Ellis, who earned her PhD from the Department of Oceanography, focused her research on tiny deep-sea animals living more than two miles below the ocean surface in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a vast ...

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A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...