"When a big shadow appears in the deep blue & starts moving straight towards you,” reads the Manta Dive Center Instagram ...

Celebrate Shark Week by meeting some of the prehistoric sharks prowling the museum’s collection Jack Tamisiea For nearly half a billion years, sharks of all shapes and sizes have ruled the deep, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Chilean devil rays swim in the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores. Reinhard Dirscherl / ullstein bild via Getty Images There’s only one word for it: indescribable. “It’s one of those awesome experiences ...

Drones often capture footage of great whites and other sharks swimming in the shallows near beaches. Most sharks can be found in the upper sectors of the Earth’s oceans – but did you know that there ...

New research has found that deep-sea mining in international waters could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras — many of which are already at risk of extinction. Chondrichthyes, ...

Sharks are often misunderstood, but for divers, they’re among the most compelling creatures to encounter. These animals are ancient, finely tuned, and nothing like their Hollywood image. Around the ...

A deep-sea ecologist writes that the United States’ new rush to allow deep-sea mining raises significant environmental ...