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 ...
‘Supergiant’ deep-sea creature found at fishing port is a new species — and a delicacy
The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.
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Deep ocean buffet: Big fish are surprisingly reliant on the twilight zone
The researchers studied tissue from over 120 fish. They found that 50 to 60 percent of their diet came from ocean’s twilight ...
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'Icarus of the deep': How a dying anglerfish became a social media sensation
with some seeing the fish as a feminist icon or an Icarus-like figure who swam too close to the sun. The reaction shows our views of the deep sea—long ignored or seen as a realm of monsters ...
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Fish in the Mariana Trench all have the same, unique mutations
Tracing the evolution of deep-sea fishes, the researchers' analysis revealed that the eight lineages of fish species studied entered the deep-sea environment at different times: The earliest ...