I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

This is not the first case linking plastics with the deepest parts of the ocean. Explorer makes alarming find while attempting to break a world record in the ocean: 'A rather disheartening discovery' ...

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Scientists discovered the 1-foot-long animal while aboard a submersible several miles deep in the Pacific Ocean. Take a look.

A research expedition in the Tonga Trench filmed a Pacific sleeper shark, a slow-moving, opportunistic predator rarely seen ...

the deepest trench on Earth. The Challenger Deep plunges to an estimated 10,935 metres (roughly 6.8 miles) below sea level - more than 1.2 miles farther from sea level than the peak of Mount Everest.

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Despite its isolation, the Mariana Trench is tainted by pollution, with microplastics found even in its remote depths, ...

SCIENTISTS from Spain have discovered a new species of mud dragon (kinorhynch) a vital part of the marine ecosystem.  The Universidad Complutense de ...