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The deepest part of the ocean stays near freezing and darker than any night

At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, roughly 10,935 meters below the Pacific surface, water temperatures hover just above freezing and no trace of sunlight has reached the seafloor for as long as ...
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The deepest point in the ocean lies nearly seven miles down and crushes almost anything sent there

Challenger Deep sits at the bottom of the western Pacific’s Mariana Trench, roughly 10,935 meters below the ocean surface. That is nearly seven miles of water pressing down on anything that dares to ...

The twilight zone: Every night trillions of tiny creatures rise from the ocean depths

In the ocean's twilight zone, where the reach of the Sun fades to nothing, an epic migration begins every time night falls.

In our deep oceans, evolution is supercharged – this diversity of life could help unlock humanity’s greatest challenges

Deep oceans contain microbes with yet-to-be-discovered properties that could drive future innovations in biotechnology.
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Only 0.001% of the deep seafloor visually observed in seventy years, revealing gaps and bias in ocean exploration and global biodiversity understanding

(Saunderstown, RI — May 7, 2025) In a groundbreaking study published today in Science Advances, researchers from Ocean Discovery League reveal that only a minuscule fraction of the deep seafloor has ...