A new exploration to the Atacama Trench off South America’s west coast has shed new light on one of the Earth’s deepest places, including video evidence of what appears to be three brand new species of marine life.
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Anglerfish are famous for their head-mounted bulbs that light up the inky blackness of the deepest oceans, but to find out exactly how, Cornell researchers have now sequenced the genome of the bacteria that live inside those lightbulbs, and found a strange story of symbiosis still in progress.
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When scientists are using submersibles to study deep-sea organisms, it's understandable that they'd want to harmlessly capture fragile-bodied animals in order to get a closer look at them. Well, Harvard University's Rotary Actuated Dodecahedron (RAD) sampler is designed for just such a purpose.
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If you don't like seeing sea creatures getting saddled with cumbersome, uncomfortable-looking data-tracking devices, then you might like Marine Skin. While it still allows scientists to gather important data, it's also thin, light, flexible, stretchable and streamlined.
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Camouflage allows soldiers to blend into their surroundings, but what if they could adapt to different surroundings in seconds? A team of researchers at Northeastern University has turned to cephalopods in an attempt to uncover their camouflage secrets and see if they can be mimicked.
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Scientists from the Marine Biological Laboratory and the University of Cambridge have found that the cuttlefish controls its stealth ability using a giant neural circuit that similar to the one that squids use to control their iridescence.
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A new study from the German Cancer Research Center has revealed that the entire species of Marmorkrebs originate from a single mother crayfish, in a clonal reproduction that may help shed new light on processes in tumor development.
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Marine researchers have discovered that some species of skate were incubating their eggs in deep-sea hydrothermal vents, a behavior never before observed in marine animals.
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Humans have pretty much traipsed over all the dry parts of the planet, but the vast oceans still hide plenty of secrets from us landlubbers. Now, an ongoing study has identified a new species, the Mariana snailfish, which appears to be the deepest-dwelling fish in the world.
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An international team of scientists is halfway through a month-long journey surveying the ocean floor along Australia’s eastern abyss. So far the team has uncovered a startling array of bizarre abyssal animals including a weird faceless fish and blind deep-sea spiders.
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