In the depths of the ocean, where there’s no sunlight and the pressure could crush a submarine, a handful of animals have quietly rewritten their DNA to withstand these conditions. According to ...

Such adaptations highlight what it takes for creatures to live in the Mariana Trench. Xenophyophores observed in a 2011 expedition to the Mariana Trench. Video: National Geographic In research ...

An 'invasive' marine organism has become an economic resource in the eastern Mediterranean Skeletons and shells from an invasive species of foraminifera are helping build beaches in the eastern ...

Sea lettuce, which is a type of green alga, grows along the coasts and is interesting as a potential food source. A new survey shows that there are 20 different species of sea lettuce along the ...

But creatures lurk, drift, and burrow in this sludge, including swimming sea cucumbers that resemble inflated cow udders, and single-celled xenophyophores that resemble ruffled cabbages. The ...

Fragments of megafaunal xenophyophores represented 21 species (7.50%), including Spiculammina delicata, previously reported only from the Russian area. Rarefaction curves and sample coverage ...

The most famous deep-sea cucumber is nicknamed the “headless chicken monster.” Mariana Trench animals include xenophyophores, amphipods, and small sea cucumbers (holothurians) which all dwell at the ...

The giants of the deep are so-called xenophyophores, sponge-like animals that—like amoebas—are made of just one cell. They were found during a July research expedition run by the Scripps ...

Another option is the deep-sea dwelling organism known as a xenophyophore. Xenophyophores are… weird. They're a type of protist, meaning they’re related to things like algae and amoebas.

The deep sea is Earth's last unexplored frontier. It is also one of the most inaccessible and impenetrable. The maximum depth underwater ever reached by a human being is 702 feet. To put that into ...