Deepest Chemosynthetic Ecosystems Discovered More Than 31,000 Feet Below Pacific Surface

Creatures found in deepest parts of the ocean

NEW YORK — An underwater voyage revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches.

Scientists left stunned after discovering THOUSANDS of sea creatures living six miles underwater

Scientists have been left gobsmacked after finding thousands of sea creatures flourishing almost six miles underwater in the ocean's deepest point

Scientists uncover life forms at 31,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean

The organisms discovered sustain on chemosynthesis rather than sunlight and are clustered around abundant methane seeps in hadal trenches.

See the bizarre life forms scientists found more than 31,000 feet under the ocean surface.

Forget photosynthesis—these marine communities rely on chemosynthesis to survive in darkness, and under intense pressure.

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches

Hadal trenches, some of the Earth’s least explored and understood environments, have long been proposed to harbour chemosynthesis-based communities1,2. Despite increasing attention, actual documentation of such communities has been exceptionally rare3,4. Here we report the discovery of the deepest and the most extensive chemosynthesis-based communities known to exist on Earth during an expedition to the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench and the western Ale…

Biologists discover ‘hadal zone’ deep in Pacific trenches

When her three-person submersible descended more than 30,000 feet into one of the Pacific Ocean's deepest trenches, Mengran Du wasn't sure what they would find.