Smithsonian Magazine

In a First, Scientists Find Animals Thriving Beneath the Ocean Floor in Hidden Habitats Near Deep-Sea Vents

A sample of ocean crust, turned upside down, reveals tubeworms and other organisms. Mónika Naranjo-Shepherd / Schmidt Ocean Institute CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 In summer 2023, researchers deployed a ...
The New York Times

Move Over, Robots: Sea Lions With Cameras Can Map the Ocean Floor

Daphne, Phoebe, Iris and Pasithea demonstrated how marine mammals can help scientists understand mysterious places that humans may never visit. By Kate Golembiewski Around much of the planet, an ...
Los Angeles Times

Deep-sea metals may be source of oxygen for life on ocean floor

Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source of oxygen for the animals, plants and bacteria that live there. This ...
NPR

How the Navy built 'Sealabs' on the ocean floor in the 1960s (Part 1)

In the 1960s, the U.S. Navy was exploring the other "final frontier" — the sea. A series of underwater habitats called "Sealabs" were constructed for scientific exploration on the ocean floor. JOHN F ...