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 ...

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.

An American explorer broke the world record for the deepest dive in 2019 for his submersible trip to the bottom of the Mariana Trench In 2019, an American explorer completed a feat that many once ...

The Mariana Trench runs more than 1,500 miles long and spans more than 40 miles across. At its deepest point, known as Challenger Deep, the trench descends approximately 11,000 meters (6.8 miles ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The life-supporting medium results from chemical reactions between the seawater and magma rising from beneath the ocean floor. 5. The Mariana Trench was designated as a US national monument in 2009 ...

Deepsea Challenge 3D traces the building of the submersible and the nearly 36,000-foot dive to the Mariana Trench’s Challenger Deep in the western Pacific Ocean — a very personal journey for ...

UNC-Chapel Hill professor Jim Kitchen will use this submersible vessel to explore the bottom of the ocean in the Mariana Trench and take footage of the sea life. Reeve Jolliffe/EYOS ...