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With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The ...

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This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how scientists view life in the deep.

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The Police front man’s 2014 musical, “The Last Ship,” was inspired by his gritty working-class childhood in England. Now a ...

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.

Ancient microbial activity preserved in wrinkled seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where traces of early life ...

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Asteroids would’ve supplied the raw materials, heat, and geologic plumbing to circulate prebiotic matter while also creating ...