The world's oceans are big and dark and deep. They cover approximately 70% of the planet’s surface and contain a huge portion of Earth’s biodiversity. If you want to find some of the weirdest ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In 2018, Yang Hao was a ...

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 ...

“Giant Blobs from the Deep” might sound like a classic campy 1950s horror flick, but in fact such bizarre life forms were spied by researchers probing the deepest parts of the ocean. A summer research ...

We see a boat on the water and a deep ocean trench below it. The deepest depths of the sea are found in the crescent-shaped Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean. But what is the ...

(CNN) — Just as Earth’s land surface has enormous peaks and valleys, the oceanic world has similarly varied topography. Perhaps the most intriguing of these features is the Mariana Trench — a chasm in ...

The sinking carcasses of fish from near-surface waters deliver toxic mercury pollution to the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world's oceans, including the deepest spot of them all: the ...

The Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the ocean, was once believed to be an untouched abyss far from the reach of human pollution. However, discoveries have shattered this illusion, revealing the ...

Blockbuster-moviemaker-turned-aquanaut James Cameron's solo dive in the Pacific to the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep site last month opens up a vast, under-explored region of the world's oceans to ...

The sinking carcasses of fish from near-surface waters deliver toxic mercury pollution to the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world's oceans, including the deepest spot of them all: the ...