The device ventured nearly 11km below the surface to the Mariana Trench.
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These ‘snailfish’ look too fragile to exist several miles below the waves.
The Mariana snailfish lives nearly 27,000 feet underwater, but has features that help it adapt to intense water pressure and cold. Physiological limits may prevent fish from surviving in deeper water.
It was our 14th expedition to the trenches of the Pacific Ocean, where depths can exceed 10,000m. And it was due to be our last for the foreseeable future. We had been aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s…
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Founding Professor of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research centre, The University of Western Australia
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Curator of Fishes, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Newcastle University
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