The Psednos gulliensis is just short of four centimeters in length, with a pinkish body and a dark-coloured head.

The deep sea has always held a certain haunting appeal—no light, crushing pressures, and frigid temperatures. Almost completely unknown until the late 18th century, people assumed nothing could ...

While trawling the floor of the Bering Sea and the Aleutian region, scientists have discovered several new species of fish — snailfish. Some were only named last year. Researchers were not looking for ...

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 ...

Scientists have filmed a snailfish five miles underwater in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench south of Japan. It is the deepest fish ever recorded. “We have spent over 15 years researching these deep snailfish ...

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

There it was: A milky, undulating snailfish, feasting on a baited camera. There are more than 300 known species of the tadpole-like creatures found around the world, but this one was special. Five ...

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The ocean is home to some of nature’s most beautiful creatures. The same can’t be said for the snailfish. Best described as something that lands in your tissue after a bloody nose, snailfish leave ...

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 ...