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 ...

The Mariana Trench has long captured the public's imagination. Here are some facts about one of the Earth's great wonders. Q. What is the Mariana Trench? The trench is the deepest place on Earth, ...

The world's oceans are big and dark and deep. They cover approximately 70% of the planet’s surface and contain a huge portion of Earth’s biodiversity. If you want to find some of the weirdest ...

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 ...

The curious minds at What If explore terrifying depths on a Mariana Trench mission, revealing unknown species, pressure, and temperature extremes.

Bizarre noises detected around the deepest ocean trench on Earth have finally been identified. These strange "biotwang" sounds—first detected in 2014 during an acoustic survey of the Mariana ...

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 ...