A Curious Mutation Is Letting Earth’s Deep-Sea Creatures Survive the Abyss
A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...
Fish in the Mariana Trench all have the same, unique mutations
Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...
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UH-discovered deep-sea anglerfish named to top 10 remarkable species list
A new species of anglerfish, “Gigantactis paresca,” discovered by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers, was recently announced among the top 10 remarkable new marine species of 2024 by the ...
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Meet Some of the Strangest Deep-Sea Creatures, from ‘Sea Pigs’ to ‘Disco Worms’
A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...
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New study shines a light on the mechanics of bioluminescence in the rare fish Vinciguerria mabahiss
Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence -- the biological production of light -- is one of the flashier survival tools used for luring prey, communication, and ...
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Mechanics of bioluminescence in rare Red Sea fish revealed
and a lens that lets the light pass through," says Clardy. A small fish only known to the Red Sea, V. mabahiss lives deep underwater and is seldom encountered by people, so much so that it has no ...
‘Icarus of the deep’: how a dying anglerfish became a social media sensation
In February, researchers from conservation organisation Condrik Tenerife were about two kilometres off the coast of Tenerife ...
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Hawai‘i researcher hopes her top 10 discovery protects a deep sea region
A new species of anglerfish found in a deep-sea mining zone has ... lure and also a non-light-bearing secondary bait. “The first time I examined this fish, it was very clearly something not ...