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

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 ...

We were amazed at this to-scale map we found on Tumblr depicting the Mariana Trench, the deepest part ... the largest animal known to Earth. Read next Jump to ...

the Mariana Trench, using a variety of research vessels and piloted submersibles. From these habitats, the researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of six major animal groups across 11 ...

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 — ...