Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean used a manned ...

A recent underwater expedition has revealed a thriving network of creatures at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. These ...

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and mollusks nearly 10 kilometers (six miles) below sea level in the ...

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed, a study ...

Secondly, for animals to hold their breath, they need lungs, said John Spicer, a marine zoologist at the University of Plymouth in the U.K. "Holding breath only applies to animals with lungs and ...

Learn all about the incredible dumbo octopus, a magical creature that lives in the depths of the oceans and looks like a ghost.

A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest ...

The algae have poisoned more than 1,737 square miles of the waters, littering beaches with carcasses and ravaging an area ...

In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of sunlight can make it hard to survive. Scientists ...