The ocean is home to some of nature’s most beautiful creatures. The same can’t be said for the snailfish. Best described as something that lands in your tissue after a bloody nose, snailfish leave ...

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Deep below the waves, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s groundbreaking underwater technology has unveiled a new snailfish species. In 2019, MBARI researchers spotted an unfamiliar pink ...

MBARI's advanced underwater technology is revealing the remarkable species that thrive in the deep sea. In 2019, MBARI researchers encountered an unfamiliar pink snailfish swimming just above the ...

A new whole genome sequence for the Yap hadal snailfish provides insights into how the unusual fish survives in some of the deepest parts of the ocean. Xinhua Chen of the Fujian Agriculture and ...

The deep ocean is home to the largest ecosystem on Earth, but we’ve only explored a tiny portion of it. Despite the enormity of our seas, new species are discovered all the time thanks to ...

Scientists have filmed a snailfish five miles underwater in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench south of Japan. It is the deepest fish ever recorded. “We have spent over 15 years researching these deep snailfish ...

Is it downright adorable, or is it so ugly it's cute? Either way, a pink fish newly discovered off of California's Central Coast has the makings to survive in one of the darkest, coldest places on ...

The deepest-ever species of fish has been recovered from the Mariana Trench. Thriving at 26,200 feet below sea level, the small, slimy and translucent fish have somehow adapted to one of the harshest ...