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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists who have been exploring the Red Sea have discovered natural death traps in the region now believed to be the location where Moses parted the waters. The brine pools were found 4,000 ...

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 found deep-sea 'death pools' in the Gulf of Aqaba. These pools host extremophile microbes and are devoid of oxygen ...