Scientists have long studied organisms that thrive around hydrothermal vents. But those native to areas known as cold seeps — ...

The deep ocean is a world of crushing pressure, freezing temperatures, and eternal darkness. For most of history, scientists ...

A Chinese-led research team captures pictures of life at depths of more than 9km in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

A Chinese submersible discovered thousands of worms and molluscs about 10 kilometres below sea level, in the Mariana Trench ...

The trench is 2,550 kilometres long, but only 69 kilometres wide (Jesse Allen/University of New Hampshire Centre for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/NOAA Joint Hydrographic Centre) (Jesse Allen ...

BEIJING (AFP) — China livestreamed footage of its new manned submersible parked at the bottom of the Mariana Trench on Friday, part of a historic mission into the deepest underwater valley on the ...

More information: Johanna N. J. Weston et al, A new large predator (Amphipoda, Eusiridae) hidden at hadal depths of the Atacama Trench, Systematics and Biodiversity (2024).

Three bizarre-looking types of deep sea creatures have been spotted in one of the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean — the Atacama Trench, located up to 7 miles below the ocean’s surface off … ...

Researchers probing the deep, dark waters of the Pacific's Atacama Trench have discovered three "amazing" species of snailfish swimming almost 5 miles below the ocean surface. Temporarily ...

Last May, when "Limiting Factor" descended to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, the ocean's deepest point, its pilot spotted a plastic bag.

To study these dark zones, they made a comprehensive review of images collected over 35 years by Japan’s Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. The information came from more than 5,000 ...

The first explorers visited the trench in 1960 on a brief expedition, after which there had been no missions until Hollywood director James Cameron made the first solo trip to the bottom in 2012.