Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

The deep ocean is a vast reservoir of biodiversity that harbors unique species, communities, and ecosystems,” write the authors of a new study. We tend to think of the deep ocean as cold, dark, and ...

A groundbreaking study has revealed the presence of thousands of previously unknown microbes thriving in the hadal zone, the deepest ... our understanding of life in extreme environments but ...

The first phase of the MEER research was a joint effort of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Institute of Deep-sea Science ...

Ocean depth is divided into zones: littoral, bathyal ... Coral reefs provide an important ecosystem for marine life, offering food and shelter among their crevices and branches for animals including ...

Life down there plays by a completely different set of rules, with creatures that have adapted in ways we can barely imagine. Just when scientists think they’ve seen it all, the ocean proves ...

Their diversity is comparable to the total number of already known marine microorganisms ... forefront of deep-sea life sciences research, said the scientists. The hadal zone, defined as regions ...

In this extreme environment—particularly in the hadal zone at depths greater than 6,000 ... It not only uncovers key mechanisms that enable life to thrive in extreme environments but also ...

In this extreme environment—particularly in the hadal zone at depths greater than 6,000 ... shedding new light on how life endures in such environments. The sampling spanned from the western ...

Ocean depth is divided into zones: littoral, bathyal, abyssal and hadal. The deepest part of the ocean, the hadal zone, is anywhere deeper than six kilometres. What is the average depth of the ocean?