A global internet poll has named a new species of deep-sea chiton – a type of marine mollusc – from the genus Ferreiraella. The chiton was discovered in 2024 in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench of the coast of Japan at a depth … Continue reading
A team of Australian and Japanese scientists succeeded in capturing on camera the deepest-swimming fish ever recorded. The fish, an unknown snailfish species of the genus Pseudoliparis, was recorded at a depth of 8,336m in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south of … Continue reading