It’s no wonder deep-sea creatures are so strange. They survive against the odds in one of the most extreme environments on ...

In a new study, published March 6 in the journal Cell, researchers analyzed the DNA of 11 fishes, including snailfish, cusk-eels and lizardfish that live in the hadal zone — the region about ...

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

One group, the hadal snailfish, has even reshaped its own skin. The researchers found high levels of collagen and keratin-related proteins in its tissues, hinting at a gelatinous layer that may ...

Today, nations like the United States and China have deployed deep-sea submersibles to the hadal zone—depths exceeding 6,000 meters. The Chinese research vessel Fendouzhe reached nearly 11,000 ...

Hagfish scatter and snailfish flutter, lava pillows flash and fade, rumpling the seabed as a new volcano births a mountain. Where hot meets cold, a chimney forms... and here begins a colony of ...