The deep ocean is a vast reservoir of biodiversity that harbors unique species, communities, and ecosystems,” write the authors of a new study. We tend to think of the deep ocean as cold, dark, and ...

Narrator: The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on Earth ... Narrator: But if you put out some food, some of the planet's strangest creatures would emerge from the darkness.

The Mariana Trench is described as the deepest, freezing dark abyss, and crushing pressures exceeding 1,000 times that at sea level. Such a place gives us the impression that it could be a world where ...

The trench is an unforgiving environment. The pressure is over 1,000 times greater than that at sea level, and at Challenger Deep—the deepest point navigated to date—the temperature is just above ...