The captain sounds the alarm. The waters around the ship rumble. Strange lights from deep below inch closer and closer to you ...

If you ask most people, they would tell you the bottom of the ocean is a dark and depressing place they wouldn't want to visit. It's often used as a metaphor for those kinds of feelings. But the truth ...

Megalodon, the giant prehistoric shark that once ruled warm oceans, is having a very modern afterlife. Despite a clear scientific consensus that the species is long extinct, online speculation keeps ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a nightmare scenario: megalodons, prehistoric sharks nearly as large as blue whales, survive in the deepest part of the ocean ...

Explorer and businessman Victor Vescovo descended 35,853 feet into the Pacific Ocean, breaking the record for deepest dive ever. At the very bottom, he found colorful rocky structures, weird critters ...

The project explores how life adapts to extreme environments—and hopes to inspire new drugs or even treatments to aid space travel. We’ve only scratched the surface of what thrives in the deepest ...

Scientists have found that man-made mercury pollution has reached the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean—the Marianas Trench. This has significant implications for how mercury affects the marine ...

Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed surprising diversity. And also trash. ©2025 ...

Life has a remarkable knack for persisting even in the most unlikely of environments. A new study finds lipid biomarkers in a extremely alkaline serpentinite mud retrieved from the mud volcanoes near ...