Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

What's at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and how do we know? How deep does the ocean go? We'll answer these questions and more in this deep dive into the world's oceans. Come on in: The water's ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark, and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At ...