The deep ocean is a vast reservoir of biodiversity that harbors unique species, communities, and ecosystems,” write the ...

Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed ...

Challenger Deep, the Earth's deepest point, lies in the Mariana Trench. Discover its extreme conditions, exploration history, ...

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that help sea creatures survive in the ocean's deepest reaches.

Chinese scientists are mapping the deepest marine ecosystem, uncovering the secrets of life on the ocean floor, Azernews ...

Both trenches make up part of the seabed of the Pacific Ocean. The Cabinet Office projected up to 199,000 fatalities in the event of a magnitude-9.1 megaquake in the Japan Trench late at night in ...

Analyses of sediment cores from the Pacific Ocean's Japan Trench, presented in Nature Communications, uncover evidence of burrowing and feeding activity of these deep-sea dwellers. The Hadal Zone ...

It’s completely dark of course ... parts of our oceans is more diverse than it is in the ocean floor areas that surround these trenches," Virtasalo said. They found evidence of a strange ...

This movement results in deep ocean trenches, volcanic eruptions, and earthquake epicenters along the boundaries where the plates meet, called fault lines. The Ring of Fire is home to the deepest ...