New research has uncovered a crucial clue to understanding the spread of "barrens" in the Great Southern Reef, which are ...

Marine researchers have found 488 distinct species thriving in a methane-rich, deep-sea environment, according to a summary ...

The researchers studied tissue from over 120 fish. They found that 50 to 60 percent of their diet came from ocean’s twilight ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean and found that all species contained the ...

How far would you go for a good meal? For some of the ocean's top predators, maintaining a decent diet requires some ...

another deep sea dweller, by nearly 300 votes. In their natural habitat, on the seabed at depths of about 2,000ft to 4,000ft (600m-1,200m), blobfish resemble any other fish. But when brought to ...

A new species of anglerfish, “Gigantactis paresca,” discovered by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers, was recently ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

Brownstein and his colleagues emphasise that sexual parasitism doesn’t exist in isolation but works in concert with other adaptations that help anglerfishes thrive in the deep sea. Female anglerfishes ...

“There’s going to be damage at a very large scale,” said Jeffrey ... and more industrial fishing has led to fewer and fewer fish for local fishers. Rongo sees his people’s choice as a binary one: ...

In recent years, deep learning has revolutionised ... Manual processing of this data is very labour-intensive and time-consuming, which has led to significant efforts to develop automated methods for ...