An expedition records 29,556 animals in the abyssal trenches and reveals how they survive the pressure and total darkness.

Victor Vescovo dove to a depth of 35,853 feet in the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean — and saw new animals as well as plastic litter. Explorer and businessman Victor Vescovo descended 35,853 feet ...

In a groundbreaking scientific expedition, researchers have identified over 7,000 new microbial species thriving in the ...

The project explores how life adapts to extreme environments—and hopes to inspire new drugs or even treatments to aid space travel. We’ve only scratched the surface of what thrives in the deepest ...

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A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and mollusks nearly 10 kilometers (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed, a study ...

The vastly deep ocean trenches at the edge of continents have been something like the Mars of oceanography — off limits until recently. Now they are providing information nearly as freaky as that ...

Alan Jamieson remembers seeing it for the first time: a small, black fiber floating in a tube of liquid. It resembled a hair, but when Jamieson examined it under a microscope, he realized that the ...

Researchers have detected man-made mercury pollution at the bottom of the Mariana Trench—the deepest oceanic trench on the planet. A team of scientists identified methylmercury—a toxic form of mercury ...