One marine mammal has been documented diving as deep as 9,816 feet — equivalent to the depth of over 30 Statues of Liberty stacked on top of one another. When you purchase through links on our ...

Dr Sascha Hooker of the University of St Andrews is studying marine mammal diving behaviour. 'Beaked whales are amazing animals,' she says. 'It is not just the occasional deep dive that we see, but ...

Experts identified the 13.8-foot-long (4.2 meters) animal as a juvenile female Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens) — one of the "deepest diving animals in the ocean," Yurasits said.

It was a deep sea species called a Sowerby’s beaked whale: “Some of the deepest diving animals in the ocean,” Yurasits explained. Silver, sleek and strong, this whale had beached itself on a ...

A deep-diving robot that chiseled into the rocky Pacific seabed at a spot where two of the immense plates comprising Earth's outer shell meet has unearthed a previously unknown realm of animal ...

A new study demonstrates that large predatory fishes like sharks, tunas and billfish make a surprising number of visits to the deep ocean—particularly the mesopelagic zone, which is found ...