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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

The deepest-ever species of fish has been recovered from the Mariana Trench. Thriving at 26,200 feet below sea level, the small, slimy and translucent fish have somehow adapted to one of the harshest ...