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Deep-Sea Fish Have Independently Evolved The Same Gene Mutation To Deal With Crushing Pressure
It’s no wonder deep-sea creatures are so strange. They survive against the odds in one of the most extreme environments on ...
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 ...
Deep-Sea Fish Has Hair—Oh Wait, Those Are Giant Parasites
In haunting footage captured about 1,604 feet (489 meters) under the sea, cameras captured the tubular crustaceans latched ...
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Mangroves help raise hundreds of billions of fish annually
A global study finds mangroves support 700 billion juvenile fish and invertebrates every year, showing their vital role in ...
This Earth Day, Tampa Bay students and experts urge working together for the planet
The Tampa Bay Times hosted two roundtable discussions beside The Florida Aquarium’s “Heart of the Sea” fish tank.
Fishing bans can help kelp forests withstand marine heat waves
Marine heat waves that seemed extreme just a decade ago will become commonplace by the end of this century in waters favored ...
Earth’s 5 catastrophic mass extinctions, explained
Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...