Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

In 2021, Chinese scientists boarded a deep-sea sub, Fendouzhe, and ventured to the depths of the Mariana Trench in the western ... as the deepest-living fish ever found. By comparing it to other ...

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

using aluminum found in the seafloor. It's a good thing, too, because those shells are their best defense against something else lurking in the abyss. The Mariana snailfish, aka the deepest fish ...

We were amazed at this to-scale map we found on Tumblr depicting the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world's oceans. The trench is located in the Pacific Ocean near the Philippines.

Last month, the BBC reported that an American explorer had successfully broken the record for the deepest ocean dive, far down into the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench. What did they find down there?

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

Plastic pollution has even been found in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the ocean ... These microplastics get swallowed by fish and other marine life and can end up in our food chain. As yet ...

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 ...