How do fish survive in the extreme conditions of the deep sea—amid icy cold, darkness, and immense water pressure? A genomic study provides surprising answers: A single mutated gene might have ...

in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific and other trenches in the Indian Ocean. Tracing the evolution of deep-sea fishes, the researchers' analysis revealed that the eight lineages of fish species ...

Do we have the right to turn insects into cyborgs that we can control to do our bidding, including our military bidding, if they feel pain or have preferences or anxieties? Making a cyborg animals can ...

A multinational team of scientists aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus will set sail Monday for a 22-day mission to ...

The Ocean Exploration Trust’s (OET) exploration vessel Nautilus departed from Apra Harbor on Wednesday, beginning a 22-day ...

The CNMI governor says it "would help the American Samoa tuna canneries", but one environmentalist says "local fishers may ...

For scientists studying the mysteries of the ocean, few places on Earth hold the level of intrigue that the Mariana Trench does ... and strange invertebrate species. In 2019, a U.S. team of ...

As scientists reveal we have only explored 0.001 per cent of the deep ocean, an interactive graphic shows what is lurking ...

we systematically explored the 6,000 to 11,000-meter-deep regions of the Mariana Trench, Yap Trench, and the Philippine Basin. We identified more than 7,500 species of hadal prokaryotic ...

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