A groundbreaking study sheds light on the extraordinary evolution of anglerfish, a group of deep-sea dwellers whose bizarre adaptations have captivated scientists and the public alike. The research ...

A new study reveals the remarkable evolutionary history of anglerfish, deep-sea creatures whose unusual adaptations.

By Priyanka Shankar India’s government organization dedicated to developing technologies for exploring and harnessing ocean ...

An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite image of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, where 'dead zones' can ...

Coral reefs, benthic life, and a huge variety of ocean fish take advantage of these ... through the aphotic zone all the way to the gigantic abyssal plain. Much of the abyssal plain is between ...

This pushed ocean temperatures as high as 28.3°C on the surface ... It was known from fossil-fuel records that some sharks expanded from the benthic zone to the pelagic zone. But this study is the ...

A groundbreaking Rice University study sheds light on the extraordinary evolution of anglerfish, a group of deep-sea dwellers whose bizarre ...

The exploratory mission comes at a time of high resistance to deep sea mining given the unknown ecological effects.

In the sunlit surface ocean, known as the euphotic zone, phytoplankton fix carbon dioxide into organic matter. This process, called ocean productivity, is regulated by the supply of key nutrients ...

Researchers have discovered an unlikely new species within the ocean's midnight zone: a glowing "mystery mollusk."Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is classified as a ...