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Deep-sea creatures exhibit gigantism, with football-sized eyes and van-sized sponges thriving in crushing darkness. These ...

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An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant damage to life on the seabed, scientists carrying out the largest study of its kind say. They found that the number of ...

There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the seabed. An international study, which has discovered large numbers of new ...

A new analysis of an exquisitely preserved fossil that lived half a billion years ago suggests that arachnids—spiders and their close kin—evolved in the ocean, challenging the widely held belief that ...

In some caves in New Zealand there are "glowworms," bioluminescent fungus gnat larvae that glow bright blue and catch prey in sticky webs, like a combination of wanna-be spiders and fireflies. You can ...

Sea spiders are not actually arachnids, although they certainly look the part. They’re weird guys, and the specifics of their strangeness may actually help us to better understand how all invertebrate ...