Scientists have discovered an intricate network of tunnels and burrows in the Japan Trench, challenging long-held beliefs ...

For the new study, scientists analyzed the top section of 20 sediment cores from the bottom of the Japan Trench, a 5-mile-deep (8 km) tectonic chasm located off the east coast of Japan along the ...

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 ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

The researchers from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science ... more than 9,000 meters deep along a trench off the Boso Peninsula, and nearly 6,000 meters deep on an abyssal plain located ...

The central government decided on Nov. 8 that in the event of a huge earthquake along the Japan Trench or the Chishima Trench, it will issue an alert warning of the potential for follow-up ...

Vital to many expanding technologies, rare-earth deposits were identified in Japan’s deep-sea clays in 2013. Scientists have been contemplating the technical and environmental challenge this ...