An expert diver's record-breaking feat was supplemented, not by the discovery of a magical marine creature, but by plastic ...

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and scientists think it could be an ecological haven. A new study describes a four ...

Due to this phenomenon, the Pacific Ocean basin is currently shrinking by about 2.5 cm (1 in) per year on three sides, ...

Deep below the Pacific Ocean lies the Mariana Trench, which is home to the Earth's deepest known point of the seabed, plunging to 10,935 metres below sea level.

A never-before-seen predatory crustacean that feeds on other smaller creatures in the hadal zone was discovered in the Atacama Trench at a depth of 25,900 feet.

A 2023 astronaut photo captured a rare effect, known as sunglint, transforming the surface of one of Russia's deepest lakes ...

The hadal zone, comprising the ocean’s deepest regions from 6,000 to 11,000 ... 500-year-old shark - the longest living vertebrate on Earth Oldest sea-going reptile unearthed in New Zealand ...

nearly five miles below the ocean’s surface, according to Live Science. The Atacama Trench, located about 160 kilometers off the coasts of Peru and Chile, is one of Earth's deepest oceanic ...

Characterized by darkness and intense pressure, the ocean's hadal zone seems uninhabitable ... how life has evolved and even thrives in one of Earth's most extreme environments.

Without leaving Earth, scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... below the surface—well within the deepest part of the ocean, known as the Hadal zone. Scientists have long been interested ...