Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

Metagenomic sequencing of 1,194 samples generated the 92-terabasepair (Tbp) Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research ...

Why it matters: The Mariana Trench, with its crushing pressure and ... use resources more efficiently in the cold, ...

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

Their work is part of the Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research (MEER) project, which they claim provides the “first systematic view of the ecosystem in the hadal zone.” The hadal ...

Separately, the researchers also developed a soft gripper, which can be attached to a rigid robot. It was tested in the South China Sea, where the team attached it to an arm on a submersible, which ...

In this extreme environment—particularly in the hadal ... in liver tissues of hadal snailfish from the Mariana Trench and the Philippine Sea Basin. These synthetic pollutants have infiltrated ...

Only a handful of people have ever visited the bottom of the Mariana Trench, a crescent-shaped ... Cameron described a “desolate” and “alien” environment. Video footage shot and relayed ...

initiator and convening scientist of this scientific initiative "Mariana Trench Environment and Ecology Research", or MEER. "Such resources may provide a new option to solve the dilemma of global ...

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 ...