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 ...

A research team led by Sam Purkis, a professor and chair of the Department of Marine Geosciences at the University of Miami, ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered natural death pools in the Red Sea, in the region now believed to be the location where Moses ...

The contents of three large metal cases have changed our understanding of life under the ocean. Inside were vials of sediment hauled up from a record 8km below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

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