As you get closer to the bottom of the ocean, it gets darker, denser and stranger. All light from the surface has been absorbed, and only the most adapted species can navigate the lack of oxygen in ...

In the depths of the ocean where the Earth’s crust meets the freezing water, chemicals leak into the seawater through cracks and fissures called cold seeps. These floods of hydrocarbon-rich fluid and ...

Deep under the surface of the South China Sea, a new species waits buried in the sand. Matt Hardy via Unsplash More than 4,000 feet below the ocean’s surface, a crack in the seafloor spews gases into ...

Deep below the surface of the South China Sea, an undiscovered species sat in the sediment for thousands of years before its discovery. Brian Aitkenhead via Unsplash In the depths of the ocean where ...

In the deep waters of the South China Sea, a new species was discovered near a cold seep thousands of feet deep. Marko Blazevic via Unsplash As you get closer to the bottom of the ocean, it gets ...