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 ...

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 ...

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

Here we see an adult male Tapanuli orangutan named Togos. Pseudoliparis swirei, also known as the Mariana snailfish, is the deepest known fish in the sea. Pseudoliparis swirei is a small ...

Despite its isolation, the Mariana Trench is tainted by pollution, with microplastics found even in its remote depths, ...

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.