Several miles beneath the sunlit waves, in a place where bones should crack and metal should crumple, life is quietly rewriting the rules of biology. Over the last decade, deep-diving robots and pressure-proof landers have slipped into the black pits of the Mariana, Kermadec, Japan, and Izu–Ogasawara trenches, returning with images and specimens that ...
A translucent juvenile colossal squid, the legendary “kraken” of Antarctic waters has been captured on video for the first time, solving a century-old marine mystery. The Shot That Rewrote Marine Biology On March 9, 2024, an ROV named SuBastian made history 600 meters deep near the South Sandwich Islands: “This is like finding a unicorn, ...
Far below the surface weather and the churn of waves, a second world stretches across the planet – silent, pitch-black, but busy as a city at rush hour. Scientists have mapped only a sliver of this terrain, and every new expedition seems to rewrite a chapter of Earth’s story. hides lakes that defy physics, ...
Eight kilometers down, where daylight never arrives and the weight of the ocean stacks like a mountain of granite, fish still thrive. Their survival defies everyday intuition, yet new research reveals an elegant playbook written in chemistry, tissue architecture, and evolution’s quiet patience. Scientists are piecing together how proteins stay supple, bones stay light, ...
