Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot teeming with unique and often ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ...

PARIS: In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners — and huge numbers of strange and rare animals almost entirely unknown to science.

scientists have looked for animals beneath hydrothermal vents," said Jotika Virmani, executive director of the Schmidt Ocean Institute, that headed the expedition in the Pacific. She noted how ...

During four surveys in the western Pacific from 2013 to 2018, the robot collected ocean specimens and brought ... according to the study. The animal’s skin was “glass-like” and “calcareous ...