Far below the waves of the Pacific, scientists are uncovering a riot of life just as industrial machines line up to scrape the seabed for metals. Hundreds of newly described animals, from delicate ...

As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining may soon begin. Over five years and 160 days at sea, researchers ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Genetic tests confirm that a mysterious, unnamed species of beaked whale only rarely seen alive by Japanese fishermen roams the northern Pacific Ocean, according to research ...

For decades, a single whale’s strange 52-hertz call has baffled scientists, raising haunting questions about its identity, origins, and whether its lonely voice is ever heard in the vast Pacific.

In the late 1980s, a set of military ears listening for submarines instead picked up something far stranger: a solitary, ...

NASA has taken images of an incredible phytoplankton display around the Chatham Islands where warm and colder water converge to create a unique environment.

Fossil crustaceans preserved in Japanese sediments reveal how ancient ocean currents linked Asia and North America during the ...