Explore the astonishing discoveries scientists have made deep within the ocean. This video reveals bizarre creatures thriving nearly 3 miles underwater in an environment that seems impossible for life ...

There’s increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths ...

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More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...

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Thousands of feet deep, parts of the seafloor are covered in polymetallic nodules. The potato-sized formations are being targeted by mining companies because of the metals they contain. (NOAA Ocean ...