A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Separately, the researchers also developed a soft gripper, which can be attached to a rigid robot. It was tested in the South China Sea, where the team attached it to an arm on a submersible, which ...

In the journal Royal Society Open Science, a researcher described a study showing microplastics near the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place in the world’s oceans. The authors wrote ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

Creatures in the deep sea and in isolated caves tend to lack color because no one can really see it. But despite its size, Darkness is a hunter. Unlike many other amphipods in the trench ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

In a few days Cameron planned to deploy the craft in a deep seafloor ... Next stop: the Mariana Trench. A five-day passage to Guam gave the expedition a bitter taste of the open sea.Mermaid ...

Scientists have captured photos of litter at the bottom of the Calypso Deep, a trench 16,771ft (5,112m) below the surface of the Ionian Sea ... ocean is found in the Mariana Trench, located ...

Related: How deep is the Mariana Trench? "This study shows that deep-sea fishes, despite originating from very different branches of the fish tree of life, have evolved similar genetic adaptations ...