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

The recent flurry of expeditions launched by the Ocean Census used divers, submersibles and deep-sea robots up to 5000 meters below sea level to discover new species. The species were analyzed and ...

Prof. HE Shunping's team from the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), along with ...

When a male anglerfish finds his mate in the pitch-black expanse of the deep sea, he uses his sharp teeth to latch onto her ...

Some species are rigid and colorful, while others are nearly translucent and flexible in the water currents. Glass sponges are found along the deep sea, providing a hiding place for small critters ...

But a large project has now added over 6,000 new microbes to the deep-sea species tally. Another team assembled the genomes of 11 deep-sea fish and found a mutated gene that could boost their ability ...