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

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

The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on Earth, and we're still in the dark about much of the life that calls it home. Here are just a few of the trench's eye-popping residents.

Kinorhynchs are small animals ranging from 100 micrometers to one millimeter that are part of the meiofauna, a highly ...

Dr. Dawn Wright, the first Black person to reach Challenger Deep, found a beer bottle at the Mariana Trench's deepest point. Her discovery highlights the severity of ocean pollution, emphasizing ...

the deepest trench on Earth. The Challenger Deep plunges to an estimated 10,935 metres (roughly 6.8 miles) below sea level - more than 1.2 miles farther from sea level than the peak of Mount Everest.

The Mariana Trench is the deepest known point of the ocean, plunging down further than ... Sunlight cannot penetrate deep water so it's always dark, the temperature hovers around freezing, and ...

The year 2023 brought major breakthroughs in the research journey of the Integrated Deep Ocean Observing System (IDOOS) Expedition, and their work took them to this remote trench. Scientists aboard ...

They were then transported across the deep-sea topography along the Sagami Trough seabed depression to areas around the sampling sites along the trench, the scientists said. By contrast ...