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A strange menagerie of creatures living off methane have been found in the darkest depths of the Pacific Ocean.
Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a manned ...
The water within these trenches is known as the hadal zone—the area of ocean lying 20,000 to 36,000 feet beneath the surface of the water. Between 2018 and 2019, Vescovo visited all five of the ...
The Ring of Fire is a 40,000-km horseshoe-shaped belt around the edges of the Pacific Ocean, known for its intense seismic ...
About 30 million years ago, the Gibraltar Trench formed when the tectonic plate underneath Africa began sliding below the one underneath Eurasia. Getty Images They found that the plate subduction ...
A new study has found that the nuclear tests performed during the Cold War during the 1950s and 1960s have left a very disturbing legacy on our planet — they have infiltrated the bodies of ...
Exploration of the Mariana Trench has been this generation’s equivalent of scaling Mt. Everest. Filmmaker James Cameron last year became the first person to reach the depths of the Mariana ...
The discovery challenges "long-standing assumptions about life's potential at extreme depths," study authors said.
Scientists have filmed odd communities of life flourishing deeper in the ocean than ever before. The chemosynthesis-based ...