and bottom-dwelling fish.” Last year, a team of researchers discovered macroscopic life beneath the deep ocean’s seafloor, complicating our understanding of the living things in one of Earth ...

The amount of plastic in the ocean is expected to double in the next 15 years, and it’s estimated that by 2050, there could be more plastic in the ocean than fish (by weight ... either under water or ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms ... materials are deposited on the sea floor from trench margins above.