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 ...

The ocean depths have produced many a strange and wonderful thing — but the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. In the western Pacific's Mariana Trench — the very deepest spot in the world's oceans — ...

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 ...

Amazingly, these trenches lie at depths greater than the height of Mount Everest, Earth's tallest peak. The deepest one reaches 9,533 metres (31,276 feet) below the ocean surface in the ...

“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 ...

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 is the deepest ocean trench in the world, located in the Pacific Ocean. Learn about its depth, location, ...

Researchers have detected man-made mercury pollution at the bottom of the Mariana Trench—the deepest oceanic trench on the planet. A team of scientists identified methylmercury—a toxic form of mercury ...

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 ...