The bacteria-hunting virus is named vB_HmeY_H4907 and was found 8,900 meters below the surface of the ocean. Reading time 2 minutes In new research this week, scientists say they’ve unearthed a viral ...

Earth's oceanic trenches are still shrouded in mystery, and for good reason. Plunging as deep as 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) beneath the surface, their dark, frigid waters are under mind-boggling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Strange organisms that get their energy from chemical reactions instead of the sun have been discovered at the bottom of ocean ...

Oceanic trenches are topographic depressions of the seafloor, relatively narrow in width, but very long. These oceanographic features are the deepest parts of the ocean floor. Oceanic trenches are a ...

Characterized by darkness and intense pressure, the ocean's hadal zone seems uninhabitable, yet dozens of unique organisms call it home. Each species discovered there adds a crucial piece to the ...

NEW YORK — An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack of ...

Strange organisms that get their energy from chemical reactions instead of the sun have been discovered at the bottom of ocean trenches up to 31,000 feet deep in the northwest Pacific between Russia ...