Hadal snailfish are pale, soft-bodied animals adapted to pressures that crush most vertebrates. Their thin tissues can reveal ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the deepest-living fish on Earth. If you were to drop a camera into one of Earth’s ...

On a recent expedition in the Pacific Ocean, a team of marine scientists captured images of what they are calling “the world’s deepest fish.” During a research expedition that began in August 2022, ...

The deepest of deep-sea fish aren’t as scary as you might think. How deep can fish live in the ocean? That question has captivated me for more than a decade. But my research team’s discovery of the ...

A ghostly never-before-seen fish with wing-like fins has set a new depth record for fish. During a recent trip to the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, the deepest place on Earth, the ...