For the second time this year, a rare deep-sea oarfish has washed ashore in San Diego County, giving scientists a chance to ...

A Ph.D. candidate at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla found a rare deep-sea oarfish washed ashore last ...

Last week, Scripps Institution of Oceanography PhD candidate Alison Laferriere found the deceased 9.5-foot specimen at ...

Ocean enthusiasts and random passersby alike came together in Seattle this past August to explore and celebrate their ...

The deep sea is home to a lot of weird creatures. Some are brand new species living in the midnight zone, while others are ...

Ninety-nine percent of the world's digital communications rely on subsea cables. When they break, it could spell disaster for a whole country's internet. How do you fix a fault at the bottom of ...

Suddenly the dark waters lit up with a “starry”-looking glow. The source? An unusual new species of deep-sea animal. “Everyone in the control room let out a loud ‘Oooooh!’ at the same time. We were ...

Last week, Scripps Institution of Oceanography PhD candidate Alison Laferriere found the deceased 9.5-foot specimen at Grandview Beach in Encinitas.

Deep-sea mining may irreparably harm ocean ecosystems before we even have a chance to fully study its impacts. That's one reason the Center has taken a lead role against deep-sea mining. We're ...

The deep sea is home to habitats and species found nowhere else on Earth, and provides essential environmental services. Despite its importance, its vast size and challenging conditions mean there is ...

Frightening special effects drive this campy thriller about superintelligent sharks. At a high-tech lab in the Atlantic, a biologist (Saffron Burrows) and her team implant human brain tissue into ...

Why did they break one after the other? Over the following decades, as the global web of deep-sea cables expanded, their repair and maintenance has resulted in other surprising scientific ...