Scientists sampled fish living in the Pacific's Mariana Trench and trenches in the Indian Ocean. . | Credit: Han Xu et al. (2025) Evolution and genetic adaptation of fishes to the deep sea.

Chinese researchers develop a shape-shifting robot that swims, crawls, and glides at 10,600m depths, aiding deep-sea research ...

Since the 1960s, multiple missions—some autonomous, others manned—have sought to explore the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean, the Mariana Trench. Over 30,000 feet ... allowing them to reconstruct a ...

Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's now taken a dive into the Mariana Trench. The team successfully demonstrated ...

From the top of the world to the bottom...the Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean. It's an enormous scar that tears across the floor of the western Pacific Ocean for 1,580 miles.

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

In a groundbreaking scientific expedition, researchers have identified over 7,000 new microbial species thriving in the ...

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