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Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

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The blobfish is specially adapted to life in the deep ocean, but it looks like a shapeless blob when brought to the surface.

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

Once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," the blobfish – scientific name Psychrolutes marcidus – has been named New Zealand's ...

When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ...