Scientists spot nearly 50 red cusk-eels burrowed into a tubeworm bush at a methane seep in a new-to-science observation A team of scientists from Chile and the United States discovered dozens of red ...

The deep sea is critical to today’s Earth and society while also providing fertile economic potential. The deep seafloor is not simply a mass of mud, but instead an assortment of unique habitats ...

By Tom Aris in Bangkok As governments around the world worry about energy security and gas producers spend billions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A potent greenhouse gas has begun seeping out of the Antarctic seafloor in dozens of places, scientists have discovered.

Marine biologists have discovered a new species of deep-sea worm living near a methane seep some 50 kilometers (30 miles) off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Greg Rouse, a marine biologist at UC San ...

Scientists have uncovered methane seeps escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed at an “astonishing rate,” raising concerns that global warming predictions may have underestimated the impact of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ROV image of a partially collapsed gas hydrate mound in the Molloy Deep (Freya mounds), where exposed gas hydrates are visible ...

An international team of marine biologists has documented the highest known count of deep-sea species living in methane seeps off Costa Rica's Pacific coast. Of the documented species, 131 are ...

Most corals live in sunny, oxygen-rich waters off tropical coasts. But in the dark, cold, low-oxygen depths of Norway’s Hola trough, corals coexist with methane cold seeps bubbling up from gas ...

Yeti crabs, shrimp, sea worms and starfish. And that’s just to name a few. They live between 1,800 and 3,600 meters below the Pacific Ocean off the shores of Costa Rica. A team of scientists, led by ...

A team of scientists from Chile and the United States discovered dozens of red cusk-eels, fish prized in Chilean seafood markets and celebrated in a poem by renowned Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, ...