Scientists discovered human-made microplastics in the hindguts of amphipods from the Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth at nearly 11,000 meters depth. This was no accident. The discovery ...

Microplastics are so pervasive they have even been discovered in the deepest known part of the ocean: the Mariana Trench. While it has been long understood that microplastics exist on the surface of ...

Submarines have been diving deeper and deeper into the ocean's depths, with undersea explorers looking to dive deeper than ...

Plastic trash is littering some of the deepest points beneath the Earth's seas, according to a paper released last month by Japanese researchers. As NBC News reported, the scientists cataloged 3,425 ...

Megalodon, the giant prehistoric shark that once ruled warm oceans, is having a very modern afterlife. Despite a clear ...

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and mollusks nearly 10 kilometers (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed, a study ...