The world’s oceans, covering 70 percent of the earth, are vast, ominous, and largely unexplored. According to a June, 2024 report from NOAA, only 26.1 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped.

China has revealed plans to construct a deep-sea research facility at a depth of 6,000 feet beneath the South China Sea, a move that could significantly advance marine exploration, resource extraction ...

China is about to make a monumental leap in deep-sea research with the construction of a state-of-the-art underwater station set to be positioned 2,000 meters beneath the South China Sea. Scheduled to ...

Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this watery realm remains a complete mystery. That's because humans have seen ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

The deep sea, the planet’s most expansive and least understood ecosystem, remains largely unexplored. Yet while the deep sea may seem a dark and distant space, events underwater directly impact our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world’s oceans, covering 70 percent of the earth, are vast, ominous, and largely unexplored. According to a June, 2024 report ...