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 ...

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

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

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.

By comparing it to other deep-sea fish, researchers discovered it has ... This was seen in microbes dominant at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, which is similar to previously studied deep ...

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

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 ...

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 ...