An expedition records 29,556 animals in the abyssal trenches and reveals how they survive the pressure and total darkness.

James Cameron has commissioned a team of engineers to build a manned submersible capable of reaching the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world's oceans where only two humans have ...

Cruising at a depth of 8,336 meters (over 27,000 feet) just above the seabed, a young snailfish has become the deepest fish ever filmed by scientists during a probe into the abyss of the northern ...

Researchers have finally identified the source of mysterious noises coming from the deepest ocean trench. The odd sounds, described as "biotwang" noises, sound a bit like sci-fi starships, and are ...

Little is known about most magnapinnid, or bigfin squid, species. The individual pictured here was spotted by the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer in the Gulf of Mexico. Recently, a magnapinnid was filmed ...

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Scientists are baffled by a gruesome new species dubbed the 'carnivorous death ball' that lives in the deepest part of the ocean. The new predatory sponge, officially part of the Chondrocladia genus, ...

The Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation has released new footage of the OceanGate Titan submersible over a year after its ill-fated voyage. The video, obtained using a remotely operated vehicle, ...

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches The community of creatures were discovered during a dive into an ocean trench which forms between tectonic plates. The ...

Sinkholes don't just happen on land, they also happen in the ocean where they're known as blue holes. And now, researchers say they've found the deepest one yet on the planet – one so large that they ...