Scientists have discovered an area in the Red Sea with natural death traps in the region believed to be the location where Moses parted the waters.

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

People frequently picture the wide nothingness of space when they think of the unknown. But what if the most terrible and profound enigma is right here on Earth? With its eerie darkness, and creatures ...

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

The deepest parts of the ocean remain one of the most mysterious frontiers on Earth, hiding creatures that defy expectations.

Understanding the trench’s biodiversity is essential not only for studying deep-sea ecosystems but also for grasping its role in regulating the Earth’s climate system. Kolbusz noted that the ...