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 ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

The contents of three large metal cases have changed our understanding of life under the ocean. Inside were vials of sediment ...

New scans of the bottom of the Japan Trench reveal extensive burrow structures and evidence of regular "reset" events that ...

American explorer, Victor Vescovo broke the record for the deepest dive while descending nearly 11 kilometers into the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean ... on the sea floor, per BBC.

Avatar director James Cameron's attempt to be the first human being in 50 years to visit the deepest point on Earth - the bottom of the Mariana Trench, seven miles down in the Pacific - is under way.

His dive went 16m lower than the previous deepest descent in the trench in 1960 ... found the manmade material on the ocean floor and is trying to confirm that it is plastic, said Ms Stephanie ...

Victor Vescovo descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. He spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench in his submersible ...

Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench, is the deepest point in the ocean known so far, at approximately 11 kilometres - deeper than Mount Everest is tall. The Mariana Trench is 2,500 kilometres long, ...

Despite advancements in technology and seabed mapping, a large part of the ocean floor remains ... the Mariana Trench's environment is very hostile. Sunlight cannot penetrate deep water so it's ...