The specimens were the bycatch of a fishing vessel in the South China Sea, which researchers later bought to study.
Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the biological production of light—is one of ...
How far would you go for a good meal? For some of the ocean's top predators, maintaining a decent diet requires some ...
Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...
A new species of anglerfish, “Gigantactis paresca,” discovered by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers, was recently announced among the top 10 remarkable new marine species of 2024 by the ...
An undergraduate University of Hawai‘i researcher was working in a laboratory in 2022 when she came upon a peculiar looking ...
This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...
Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across ...
Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.