A recent deep-sea expedition into the Tonga Trench in the Pacific Ocean led to an astonishing discovery: a massive Pacific Sleeper Shark was filmed at an astounding 1,400 meters below the surface.

The trench stretches along the eastern South Pacific Ocean, plunging to depths exceeding 8,000 meters off the coast of northern Chile, and has long fascinated scientists. Located beneath nutrient ...

Scientists discovered the 1-foot-long animal while aboard a submersible several miles deep in the Pacific Ocean. Take a look.

Despite its isolation, the Mariana Trench is tainted by pollution, with microplastics found even in its remote depths, ...

The Trenches of the Pacific The floor of the great ocean is incised with tremendous furrows. The bottoms of several are farther below sea level than Everest is above it.

The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the Earth's surface in the western Pacific Ocean with 10.98 km depth. Its deepest point is called the Challenger Deep ...

In Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 giant monster movie Pacific Rim (streaming now on Peacock) the trench goes even deeper ... under the ocean’s surface. They are top predators of the hadal food ...

The Mariana Trench is 2,500 kilometres long, running north to south in a crescent-shape. It's located in the western Pacific Ocean near the Mariana Islands. The trench's depth was first measured ...

The deepest known area of the ocean is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific. It is nearly 11,000 metres deep. It is so deep that if you put Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, at the ...

A joint Chinese-New Zealand research team set out in October 2022 for a six-monthlong survey of the Kermadec Trench in the South Pacific Ocean, Yun-Lu Xiao and Hai-Bin Zhang wrote in a study ...