We are exploring the role of hydrothermal vents in driving the evolution of novel adaptations in deep-sea animals, throughout the 500+ million year history of complex life on our planet. In many parts ...

Learn how through evolution, anglerfish developed a mating solution that helps them adapt to their extreme deep sea home.

We also study the ecology and evolution of animals living at hydrothermal vents - underwater hot springs and oases of remarkable evolutionary novelty in the deep sea. We are undertaking a range of ...

In fact, before some fossil discoveries were made late in the 20th century, it was considered unknowable -- evolution's dark ... along volcanic ridges in the deep sea -- probably supplied the ...

Experimental evolution is the use of laboratory or controlled ... In situ exposure of shallow-water mussels to deep-sea conditions induced changes in their transcriptome and microbiome, with ...

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery of a deep-sea fish that lives without a stomach! This fascinating creature has evolved unique ways to process food, adapting to the harsh conditions of ...

Oxygen, the molecule that supports intelligent life as we know it ... to understand the implications of mining metals from ...