Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

In a groundbreaking scientific expedition, researchers have identified over 7,000 new microbial species thriving in the ...

The eerie sounds were first heard coming from the Mariana Trench - which is where the deepest known point on Earth is located - ten years ago. Experts long suspected that an underwater creature ...

Meanwhile, other studies peered into the genetic makeup of fish and shrimp-like creatures in the hadal zone. In one, scientists collected samples using the Fendouzhe submersible and an autonomous ...

Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's now taken ...

What's at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and how do we know ... Coral reefs, benthic life, and a huge variety of ocean fish take advantage of these shallow waters, nutrient-rich and warmed ...

The Ring of Fire is home to the deepest ocean trench, called the Mariana Trench. Located east of Guam, the 7-mile-deep Mariana Trench formed when one tectonic place was pushed under another.

But the work also revealed findings of concern — industrial pollutants in fish and in sediment samples from the Mariana Trench and the Philippine Trench — underscoring the human impact ...

Scientists sampled fish living in the Pacific's Mariana Trench and trenches in the Indian Ocean. (Image credit: Han Xu et al. (2025) Evolution and genetic adaptation of fishes to the deep sea ...