In 2019, an American explorer broke records by traveling to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, but what he found there was ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

The Ocean’s new website ... The Hadopelagic zone delineates the deepest trenches in the sea, from around 20,000 feet deep down to the sea floor. Here’s a nifty diagram from Wikipedia that explains it ...

The trench is located in the Pacific Ocean near the Philippines. Near the top is a tiny black dot, a to-scale representation of a 6-foot-tall person. Below that is the maximum diving depth of a ...

All of the bodies of water on Earth that ... The discovery of both trenches and mid-ocean ridges paved the way for geologists to accept plate tectonics by providing an explanation for how the ...

and the Mariana Trench—the deepest ocean trench on Earth. Of the more than 7,000 microbial species researchers documented in the samples, over 89% were previously unknown. Their study ...

Scientist have found a large amount of banned chemicals in the fatty tissue of crustaceans that live in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana and Kermadec trenches. Though the locations are 10 kilometres ...

Scientists sampled fish living in the Pacific's Mariana Trench and trenches in the Indian Ocean. (Image credit: Han Xu et al. (2025) Evolution and genetic adaptation of fishes to the deep sea ...

Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench, is the deepest point in the ocean known so far, at approximately 11 kilometres - deeper than Mount Everest is tall. The Mariana Trench is 2,500 kilometres long, ...