The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research (MEER) project provides the first systematic exploration of microbial and macrofaunal life in these depths, revealing an unprecedented level of ...

Where the two pieces of crust intersect, a deep trench forms above ... What lives in the Mariana Trench? Recent scientific expeditions have discovered surprisingly diverse life in these harsh ...

Typical water temperatures hover just a few degrees above freezing. Despite the extreme pressure, lack of light, and frigid temperatures, the Mariana Trench hosts a variety of life forms. These ...

A series of undersea mud volcanoes and hydrothermal vents in the Mariana Trench also support unusual life-forms, according to NOAA. Despite the highly acidic and infernally hot water produced by ...

Because they don’t rely on any life swimming above, these green, fuzzy mats affixed to rocky outcrops may offer clues about the kind of alien life-forms ... the Mariana Trench is a curving ...

Scientists sampled fish living in the Pacific's Mariana Trench and trenches in the Indian ... from very different branches of the fish tree of life, have evolved similar genetic adaptations ...