Aboard a research vessel in the South China Sea, scientists scooped up some deep-sea muck and began sifting through it. Hidden inside they found an eyeless creature. It turned out to be a new species.

China has installed large steel cages and a former oil drilling rig in the Yellow Sea, raising concerns in South Korea that they could be used for military purposes.

In the South China Sea, off China’s Hainan Island, researchers dropped the carcass of a cow about 5,340 feet down to the seafloor and trained cameras on the bovine bait, according to the study. To ...

There’s another way to tackle China’s exclusion of Filipino fisherfolk from the South China Sea: cutting off its access to the Philippine seafood market.

Aboard a research vessel in the South China Sea, scientists scooped up some deep-sea muck and began sifting through it. Hidden inside they found an eyeless creature. It turned out to be a new species.

Researchers discovered Endoxocrinus kexuei, a new crinoid species, in the South China Sea, living on cold seep habitats over 2,700 feet deep.