A deep-sea robot is released onto the seafloor of the Mariana Trench, reaching a depth of 10,666 meters. [Photo provided to China Daily] A team of Chinese scientists has developed a miniature ...

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The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific, and is nearly doubling the proposed seabed mining area around ...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest and probably the most enigmatic place on Earth. Whatever that means. Bizarre creatures, such as deep-sea anglerfish, frilled and goblin sharks, barreleye fish, ...

Ten years ago scientists detected odd and mysterious noises coming from inside the planet’s deepest ocean trench, the Mariana Trench. The sounds were identified as “biotwangs” and were comprised of ...

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A new deep-sea coral species in the tropical western Pacific that resembles a highly recognizable character from “Star Wars” has been discovered and named by a team of researchers including an expert ...

Chinese ocean explorers have discovered the deepest known life on Earth, thriving at extreme depths of approximately 3.5 to 6 miles below the surface. These lifeforms were found in the Kuril–Kamchatka ...