But more than a decade of mapping and exploration "revealed one of the largest deep-sea coral reef habitats found ... but until we had a complete map of the region, we didn't know how extensive ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Temple University biology professor Erik Cordes about the discovery of the world's largest known deep-sea coral habitat. Now we want to take you to the bottom of the ...

The Ocean Discovery XPrize was today awarded to teams using uncrewed deep-sea vehicles to map the ocean floor and trace chemical signals underwater. The goal is to develop a comprehensive atlas by ...

There is, however, currently an effort underway to create a definitive map of the ocean floor, called Seabed 2030. Still, there are huge gaps in what’s known of the deep sea. Of the 2.2 million ...

Scientists and environmentalists alike are now concerned that a full, detailed map of the ocean floor might lead to the destruction of delicate, mostly unknown habitats if deep-sea miners are ...

rather than in deep international waters. That’s partly because prospectors can’t target mining operations without accurate maps of most of the sea floor, but also because international laws ...

Here’s how it works. A massive deep-sea ravine in the Pacific Ocean has been mapped out in greater detail than any other part of the world's seafloor. The new maps of the "deep-sea Grand Canyon ...

Of all Earth's major ecosystems, the deep sea is one of the least understood—even though it is the largest. But a new comprehensive study that looked at 30 years of video footage from remotely ...

The "Factorian Deep ... map of Antarctica's frigid Southern Ocean to date, including the ocean's new deepest point, the "Factorian Deep," which sits nearly 24,400 feet (7,437 meters) below the sea ...

Hundreds of deadly and rare deep sea creatures have washed up on a beach in the Indian city of Chennai. A recent industrial oil spill and nearby flooding are thought to have brought the bizarre ...

Researchers collected more than 43,000 records of dives and assessed the photos and videos to determine how much of the bottom has been seen by humans. By Rebecca Dzombak Humans have visually ...