The Mariana snailfish or hadal snailfish might hold the record for the deepest fish in existence. They are relatively small, with adults measuring between 4 and 11 inches long. They have semi ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

The Mariana snailfish, aka the deepest fish ever discovered, which scientists have seen more than 8,000 meters down. And there are a lot of strange things about these fish. They have flexible ...

They can’t really see, and they don’t need to, that far from any sunlight. The Mariana snailfish lives at depths between 6,000 and 8,000 meters (3.7 to 5 miles) under the ocean’s surface.