The snailfish is one of the deepest-living marine species in the ocean, and there is still much to discover about them.

(MENAFN- The Conversation) From an unmanned submersible, protected by a casing of stainless steel almost an inch thick and a window made from super strong sapphire crystal, we can observe the life ...

Researchers have discovered three new species of deep-sea snailfish off the coast of California, including the bumpy ...

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At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of 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 ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

West Australian scientists have helped to reel in what's being described as the deepest fish ever caught during an expedition to the depths of the ocean. The juvenile snailfish was one of two ...

The Mariana snailfish is the deepest fish collected from the ocean floor. (UW Photo) They look like ghosts of the abyss, but the wispy, pinkish-white, smooth-skinned creatures at the bottom of the ...

Snailfish use their soft skeleton and partially open skull to survive intense crushing pressure in some of the deepest areas of the ocean, according to a study. Researchers caught several snailfishes ...

Three new species of fish have been discovered living in what scientists describe as one of the deepest places on Earth. The “jelly-like” snailfish, found more than 23,000ft below the ocean surface, ...

The expedition to the Atacama Trench was funded by BMBF (for ship time) and the ERC project HADES (European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant-Nr. 669947; Benthic diagenesis and microbiology ...