(Reuters) -Scientists diving to astounding depths in two oceanic trenches in the northwest Pacific have discovered thriving communities of marine creatures that get their sustenance not by eating ...

Deep-sea creatures in the trenches of Japan’s volcanically active "Ring of Fire" belt are rapidly adapting to immense depths, scientists found. These observations were part of a crewed submersible ...

Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed surprising diversity. And also trash. Reading time 3 minutes Earth’s hadal zone ...

When her three-person submersible descended more than 30,000 feet into one of the Pacific Ocean’s deepest trenches, Mengran Du wasn’t sure what they would find. What she saw, she recalled, was ...

Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The ...

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. Reading time 3 minutes Animals living in one of Earth’s most ...