New research shows how the Greenland shark’s heart keeps working for centuries by tolerating aging rather than avoiding it.

In a UC Irvine office, Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk studies a video that has changed her view of a deep-sea legend. “You see it ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

Learn how extreme longevity and deep-sea adaptations allow Greenland sharks to preserve vision for centuries.

Locals have likened the shark that washed up on the Spanish beach to popular characters from the How To Train Your Dragon ...

The rush to mine the deep ocean is no longer a distant possibility. It’s here, thanks to global demand for minerals like cobalt and nickel rising, meaning governments and corporations are eyeing the ...

Deep sea holds alien-like species. The frilled shark, a living fossil, remains a mystery. Its unique anatomy includes six ...

About seven years ago, footage began to circulate showing what was said to be the largest great white shark ever documented.

The Pygmy Shark (Euprotomicrus bispinatus), the world’s second smallest shark species and one of the species with a high overlap with proposed deep sea mining. The habitat of thirty species of sharks, ...

Most of what’s known about the deep-sea painted swellshark, was learned when researchers found specimens in the fish markets of Bali and Lombok, Indonesia back in the early 2000s. However, a recent ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

A recent video shows a massive bluntnose sixgill shark emerging from the deep sea. This ancient species, predating dinosaurs, ...