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

These animals are often among the first to colonize ... as the primary zones for deep-sea life. The hadal zone, which encompasses the ocean’s deepest and most extreme environments, was thought ...

The paper is one of a trio of MEER studies on hadal zone ecosystems published on the same day. One of the other studies details how amphipods (small shrimp-like creatures) may thrive in the ...

In the depths of the ocean, where there’s no sunlight and the pressure could crush a submarine, a handful of animals have ...