超深渊带是指海平面6000米以下的区域。这些神秘的生物能够适应深海的极端环境，但人们对它们所知甚少。近日，一系列由中国科学家完成的研究揭示了一个庞大且繁荣的深渊生态系统，分析了其中微生物与两种宏生物适应极端环境的基因策略 ...

Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed ...

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

Relying on China's self-developed human occupied vehicle (HOV) Fendouzhe, Chinese scientists have completed an exploration of ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...

The first phase of the MEER research was a joint effort of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and genome research ...

Just 6 kilometers (about 4 miles) of briny water separate the ocean's surface from the depths known as the hadal zone.

Researchers have uncovered over 7,500 new microbial species in the hadal zone, highlighting the extreme environmental ...

Chinese scientists have identified 7,564 species of prokaryotic microorganisms — 89.4 percent of them previously unreported — during an expedition to the hadal zone, the deepest part of the ...

The ocean is Earth’s last great mystery, a vast, uncharted world teeming with lifeforms we have yet to encounter. And now, scientists have uncovered a new ... Continue Reading → ...