Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

Consider the chilling possibility that the massive Megalodon shark is still alive and lurking in the deepest parts of the ocean.

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

Researchers find remarkably active bacteria in the Mariana Trench, where they live under pressure 1,000 times greater than at the surface. The movie director-turned-explorer made the 6.8-mile drop to ...

Their work is part of the Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research (MEER) project, which they claim provides the “first systematic view of the ecosystem in the hadal zone.” The hadal ...

We were amazed at this to-scale map we found on Tumblr depicting the Mariana Trench, the deepest part ... the largest animal known to Earth. Read next Jump to ...

Scientists sampled fish living in the Pacific's Mariana Trench and trenches in the Indian Ocean. (Image credit: Han Xu et al. (2025) Evolution and genetic adaptation of fishes to the deep sea ...