A female blanket octopus has to be up there as one of the most spectacular sea creatures to see alive in the wild. Growing to the length of an adult human, they trail an iridescent rainbow skirt as ...

In the ocean’s deepest abyss, a world of bizarre and dangerous creatures thrives where sunlight never reaches. The Mariana Trench, a vast expanse stretching 2,500 kilometers with depths plunging over ...

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near the Mariana Trench. Operationalizing this technology for the first time ...

The nine-armed octopus and the oddities of the cephalopod nervous system A mix of autonomous and top-down control manage the octopus's limbs.

The Mariana Trench is one of the ocean's biggest enigmas, housing untold marine life and geological features within its nearly 7-mile depths. A new ocean expedition aims to unfold some of those ...

Plastic waste has been discovered in the deepest point in the world – the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. At depths of 22,000 ft, scientists found 13,500 particles per cubic metre.

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 ...

Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's now taken a dive into the Mariana Trench. The team successfully demonstrated ...

The Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research (MEER) project provides the first systematic exploration of microbial and macrofaunal life in these depths, revealing an unprecedented level of ...

Science Scientists Discover Thousands of New Microbial Species Thriving in the Mariana Trench The project explores how life adapts to extreme environments—and hopes to inspire new drugs or even ...

That's because, the Mariana Trench's environment is very hostile. Sunlight cannot penetrate deep water so it's always dark, the temperature hovers around freezing, and the pressure is so immense ...