Scientists collected four specimens of a new predatory crustacean species named Dulcibella camanchaca at 7,902 meters in the ...
Introducing demon cavefish (Demogorgonichthys arcanus); the rare eyeless predators that have been hiding in plain sight below ...
Gérard Zinzindohoué. Researchers used sonar and underwater imaging systems to locate a mesophotic coral garden that ...
Deep-diving insect larvae are challenging a long-held idea about why there are almost no insects in the ocean, thanks to sturdy air sacs. In Lake Malawi in East Africa, billions of lake fly larvae ...
People who haven’t been to Alabama don’t realize just how many caves the state contains. Over 4,200 caves of varying sizes and depths dot the Alabama landscape. Many of these caves contain strange ...
Some 60 years ago scientists documented a coral reef off the coast of Benin in West Africa that they presumed was already ...
New research shows that deep-sea biodiversity has not fully recovered despite more than two decades without bottom trawling, reinforcing the case for protecting vulnerable ecosystems before damage ...
Deep beneath the oceans' crashing waves lies a hidden landscape more alien than many of us could ever dream. Below the Atlantic Ocean lies the Doldrums Megatransform and Fracture Zone, a remote ...
Extreme habitats call for extreme adaptations, many of which look mind-bogglingly strange to us. And the deep sea has got to be one of the richest seams for a biologist wanting to seek these oddball ...
The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) in Kochi in Kerala has discovered a new deep-sea fish from the Arabian Sea off southern Kerala. The newly identified fish belongs to the genus ...
Scientists from ICAR-CMFRI have announced the discovery of Cyttopsis indica, a new deep-sea fish species, also known as the Indian dory, found in the Arabian Sea off ...
The deep sea, which is typically defined as depths of at least 200 feet, is home to 90% of marine fish life, but the fishes that inhabit it are poorly represented in the fossil record. Whole body fish ...