4 black eggs surfaced from the dark heart of the ocean—with alien creatures inside

These spheres from the abyss conceal creatures with startling biology.
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A Curious Mutation Is Letting Earth’s Deep-Sea Creatures Survive the Abyss

Despite everything stacked against them, a variety of life thrives at ocean depths with bone-crushing pressure, low-oxygen, no light, and immensely cold temperatures. A new study analyzes the ...
Yahoo

32 truly bizarre deep-sea creatures

The deep sea is home to weird and wonderful creatures that, over millions of years, have evolved specific traits to survive the extreme conditions of their habitat. These adaptations to their ...
Forbes

Meet The Rare ‘Ghost’ Of The Deep Sea. Hint: It’s Only Ever Been Seen Alive Once

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...
The Economist

Is the deep ocean more magnificent than outer space?

MORE IS known about the surface of Mars than the floor of the ocean. By one count America spends 150 times more on space exploration than ocean research. Scientists have mapped almost every Martian ...
Live Science

Strange corkscrew burrows and other unexpected structures discovered 4.7 miles deep in the Japan Trench

The bottom of the Japan Trench has some of the harshest conditions for life on Earth. But despite this, it is crawling with deep-sea creatures that dig intricate burrows and deep, corkscrew-like ...