The deep sea begins at about 200 meters below sea level, where light starts to diminish in a region called the twilight zone.

The newfound ecosystem is crawling with life—hairy snails, ghostly shrimp, and weird worms—including ... geologic region that includes the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth.

and a sea sponge “the size of a minivan,” thought to be one of the world’s oldest living animals. See the ghostfish here: Sources: The Marianas Trench National Monument; National Geographic ...

“Your average person would not think that it was made by an animal ... s whales off the Mariana Islands, and when observing nine of those groups, they also recorded the strange sound, per ...

Scientists think they may have finally solved the mystery of unexplained noises coming from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The eerie sounds were first heard coming from the Mariana Trench ...

She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts ... first detected in 2014 during an acoustic survey of the Mariana Trench—appear to be produced the Bryde's whale, according ...

The data suggest that the animals the researchers studied are ... [Audio credit: “A Complex Baleen Whale Call Recorded in the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument,” by Sharon L.

Navigating from within a cramped, pressurized sphere, the two men sat huddled together, barely moving for nearly five hours as they made their descent to the Mariana Trench ... nets to capture animals ...

Mainly predatory species, animals here have to sit and wait for their prey to ... go as far down as 36,090 feet (11,000 meters): the deepest point on earth, The Mariana Trench, is thought to be 36,200 ...