The enormous 64 million square mile ocean that keeps shrinking every year
Due to this phenomenon, the Pacific Ocean basin is currently shrinking by about 2.5 cm (1 in) per year on three sides, ...
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Explorer Dives Into World’s Deepest Trench in the Pacific Ocean- Finds Plastic Waste on Seafloor
An expert diver's record-breaking feat was supplemented, not by the discovery of a magical marine creature, but by plastic ...
A New Predator Has Emerged From the Deepest, Darkest Part of the Ocean
The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and scientists think it could be an ecological haven. A new study describes a four ...
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New ocean predator found living in one of the deepest trenches on Earth
The deep ocean is one of the least explored frontiers on Earth, yet it teems with extraordinary biodiversity. This hidden ...
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Killer Ghost Shrimp: Scientists Discover a New Predator Lurking in the Atacama Trench
At a depth between 3.7 and 6.8 miles, the world’s hadal zones—named after Hades, the Greek god of the underworld—are the deepest parts of the oceans. Marine biologists have now uncovered a predator ...
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Submersibles Through Time
became the first humans to observe the deep ocean in their newly designed bathysphere, gazing through quartz-glass portholes three inches thick. By 1934, the team reached a world-record depth of ...
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Eerie 'Darkness' Predator Discovered in Deep Ocean
A bizarre new predator has been discovered lurking 26,000 feet below the ocean's surface and has been named after its pitch-black home. The new crustacean was discovered deep in the Atacama Trench ...