Discovery of deep-sea chemosynthesis-based communities suggests more life forms exist in unexplored ocean depths, according ...

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

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

Structures In The Mariana Trench Appear To Be Converting Energy In A Life-Like Process "A vital function in modern plant, animal, and microbial life, can occur abiotically in a geological ...

The bottom of the Mariana Trench is about 35,876 feet (10,935 meters) deep, making it deeper than Mount Everest is tall.

The trench is named after the nearby Mariana Islands, which are named after Las Marianas, in honor of the Spanish Queen Mariana of Austria. In 1668, Spain formally colonized the Mariana Islands ...

Life is surprisingly persistent in the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth. Whether or not you subscribe to the idea that viruses count as “life”, little is known about the ones that ...

The Mariana Trench reaches a maximum depth of nearly 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) that we know of. So there's potentially a lot down there that we haven't discovered or seen yet.

Earth Science Deepest Virus Ever Detected Unearthed by Scientists in the Mariana Trench The bacteria-hunting virus is named vB_HmeY_H4907 and was found 8,900 meters below the surface of the ocean.

For example, 80 percent of the biosphere -- the life of our planet -- is found in the deep sea, making the abyss the largest habitat on earth and still containing unimaginable surprises.