Demand for metals such as lithium and nickel has driven a rush to take a stake in the seabed, with Japan being a major advocate of deep-sea mining.

A “strange” creature recorded in the deep waters off the coast of Japan represents an exceptionally rare kind of discovery. With a body shaped like Mount Fuji, the new-to-science sea anemone ...

A “strange” creature recorded in the deep waters off the coast of Japan represents an exceptionally rare kind of discovery. With a body shaped like Mount Fuji, the new-to-science sea anemone ...

A "strange" creature recorded in the deep waters off the coast of Japan represents an exceptionally rare kind of discovery. With a body shaped like Mount Fuji, the new-to-science sea anemone is ...

A “strange” creature recorded in the deep waters off the coast of Japan represents an exceptionally rare kind of discovery. With a body shaped like Mount Fuji, the new-to-science sea anemone ...

A Chinese-led research team captures pictures of life at depths of more than 9km in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

Scientists found tiny animal with translucent shell under rocks in sandy mud flats, discovered new species: strange dwarf snail, study said.

Something unusual is happening in the oceans. Strange deep-sea creatures are surfacing, and marine life is behaving unpredictably. From the rare sighting of the so-called “doomsday fish” to ...

In 2023, during a deep-sea expedition near Alaska, scientists found something unusual– a smooth, golden-coloured orb stuck to a rock about three kilometres below the ocean surface. It was about ...

The Daily Mail reports that five million tons of wreckage - including homes and boats - were swallowed up by the ocean when the tsunami struck eastern Japan four years ago. The paper adds that around ...