The rush to mine the deep ocean is no longer a distant possibility. It’s here, thanks to global demand for minerals like cobalt and nickel rising, meaning governments and corporations are eyeing the ...

A new study indicates that deep-sea mining could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras, many of which are already at risk of extinction. The authors found that seabed sediment ...

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, ...

"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 ...

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 extinction. Chondrichthyes, ...

A team of researchers has managed to tag and film an ancient type of deep-sea shark—which can grow up to 20 feet in length and weigh more than a ton—in its native habitat. The bluntnose sixgill is one ...

A white shark changed her life. And not in a way you might imagine. It happened when Vicky Vásquez was a teenager out on a fishing trip with dad near her native San ...

Most of what’s known about the deep-sea painted swellshark, was learned when researchers found specimens in the fish markets of Bali and Lombok, Indonesia back in the early 2000s. However, a recent ...

A deep-sea creature was seen in the South China Sea for the first time when researchers dropped a cow carcass on the seafloor. Tian (2025) Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research Unlike great white sharks off ...