The mysteries of our ocean are not fully understood. The deepest, darkest areas may conjure up ideas of monsters like the megalodon from the Jason Statham movie. Though there are creepy creatures down ...

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches, researchers said in a newly published paper. The deep-sea trenches, also called Hadal ...

Scientists discovered human-made microplastics in the hindguts of amphipods from the Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth at nearly 11,000 meters depth. This was no accident. The discovery ...

A recent underwater expedition has revealed a thriving network of creatures at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. These extreme environments, with crushing pressure, scant food, and no sunlight, ...

Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life that’s fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The ...

Halalaimus is a microscopic nematode genus commonly found in sediment on the seafloor. It lives 1–5 cm below the sediment surface and grazes on bacteria or organic materials in the sediment. It does ...