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

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 ...

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

Narrator: The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on Earth ... The Mariana snailfish, aka the deepest fish ever discovered, which scientists have seen more than 8,000 meters down.

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic mutation. These species, which diverged on the tree of life millions of ...

As deep-sea robots continue to evolve, they hold the potential to discover new life forms—true deep-sea "aliens"—and unlock ...

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 ...

Fendouzhe, China's self-developed human occupied vehicle, operates in the seabed at Mariana Trench on Nov 8 ... and 11 categories of deep-sea fish species, the research team made groundbreaking ...

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 ...

Researchers discovered thousands of previously unidentified microorganisms at a depth of 36,037 feet in the Mariana Trench, specifically in a place known as the Challenger Deep. This is the ...