I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

It’s a good day to be a marine biologist: a bundle of new species has been found living among the deep-sea methane seeps off ...

One would think that a volcano was not the most hospitable place for living organisms. However, the Borealis Mud Volcano, at ...

A research expedition in the Tonga Trench filmed a Pacific sleeper shark, a slow-moving, opportunistic predator rarely seen ...

Scientists discovered the 1-foot-long animal while aboard a submersible several miles deep in the Pacific Ocean. Take a look.

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

An international team of marine biologists has documented the highest known count of deep-sea species living in methane seeps ...

These processes enhance the retention of organic carbon, making hadal trenches important sites for carbon burial in the deep sea. The variability in organic carbon deposition rates across ...

The Mariana Trench (sometimes called Marianas Trench) is a mysterious and extremely deep oceanic trench. Plunging deeper than ...

SCIENTISTS from Spain have discovered a new species of mud dragon (kinorhynch) a vital part of the marine ecosystem.  The Universidad Complutense de ...