The Daily Galaxy on MSN

There is only one sea on Earth that touches no land, and its borders don’t truly exist

Far out in the North Atlantic, roughly 590 miles east of Florida, a sprawling patch of water drifts in slow rotation. It ...
SURFER on MSN

Record-breaking deep-sea ‘ocean monster’ the size of a car stuns scientists off Hawaii (video)

The biggest sea sponge on record, estimated to be thousands of years old and bigger than a car, was discovered by a team of ...
Mashable

Flying spaghetti monster and unworldly life filmed in deep sea footage

Scientists discovered a giant underwater mountain. And it's teeming with deep sea life. An endeavor aboard the Falkor (too) — a 363-foot (111-meter) research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean ...

China Publishes Maps Detailing Minerals on the Ocean Floor

The new deep-sea atlas underscores Beijing’s interest in ocean mining, its military ambitions and its claims to disputed ...
AOL

Rare Deep Sea Creature Discovered in the Pacific Ocean

Given how underexplored the Pacific Ocean is, it is not surprising that new species are being discovered every time a manned or unmanned deep-water submersible is launched to document the species ...
NPR

Why some species in the deep sea get bigger, while some species get smaller

Thousands of meters below the ocean's surface lurk some gigantic creatures, much larger than their shallow-water brethren. Scientists have a few hunches for why this happens, but the debate ...