Advances in deep-sea technology ... The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research (MEER) project provides the first systematic exploration of microbial and macrofaunal life in these depths ...

Separately, the researchers also developed a soft gripper, which can be attached to a rigid robot. It was tested in the South ...

Yet, somehow, life ... transparent sea cucumbers that crawl along the ocean floor on tentacle-like legs. But perhaps the most surprising thing you'll discover inside the Mariana Trench is this ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

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

A robot submarine has shared footage of the world's deepest point as it continues its search for deep-sea 'aliens' ...

An curved arrow pointing right. On a recent expedition in the Mariana Trench, NOAA's Okeanos Explorer team spotted this sea cucumber and the unique way it swims. Produced by Grace Raver Footage ...

A team of Chinese scientists has developed a miniature 2.7-kilogram deep-sea robot to explore the deepest natural frontier on Earth — the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, according ...

The expeditions also revealed human-made pollutants in the Mariana Trench and Philippine Trench. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) — harmful chemicals used in electrical equipment and appliances ...