And, worst of all, the pressure is so immense that even many species of weathered deep-sea marine life can't live there. So, ...

Through teaching, where I have to talk to the students about a variety of extreme environments, and what such environments ...

In 2019, an American explorer broke records by traveling to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, but what he found there was ...

Sperm whales, the planet’s largest toothed predator, have incredibly complex social structures and cultural practices. During a recent WWF-backed research expedition around Greece’s northwestern ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

A Chinese vessel is suspected of mapping the seafloor around U.S. allies Australia and New Zealand to support submarine ...

Every 100 to 200 years, a megaquake strikes the Nankai Trough, a deep ocean trench created by the meeting of two tectonic plates. Since Japan is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a massive belt of ...

The Nankai Trough is a deep ocean trench formed by the boundary of two tectonic plates, which is hit by a megaquake once every 100 to 200 years. In the deadliest scenario, the report predicts that ...

The 7.7-magnitude earthquake that rocked Myanmar and Thailand on March 28 is a chilling reminder for everyone to start taking seriously the ever-present threats that come with living in the so-called ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...