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

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

used remotely operated submersibles and deep-sea probes to explore the area of deep-sea trenches lying between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The team speculates that the environment caused by ...

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

The Wallace Line divides species in Southeast Asia. A deep ocean trench prevents animal migration. Even flying birds rarely ...

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 ...

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

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that help sea creatures survive in the ocean's deepest reaches.