Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to ...
New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...
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 ...
I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our target was an east-to-west transect starting near Guam, over the Challenger ...
A team of researchers has recently discovered deep-sea brine pools in the Red Sea that may offer insights into ancient life.
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.