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Scientists unravel secrets of ultra-black fish swimming the deepest depths

"In the deep, open ocean, there is nowhere to hide and a lot of hungry predators," said zoologist Karen Osborn of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, a co-author of the research published in the journal Current Biology. At such depths, bioluminescence - light emission by living organisms - is the only light...

Climate change helped drive Siberia's heat wave, scientists confirm

Record-breaking heat in Siberia during the first half of this year would have been almost impossible without the influence of human-induced climate change, according to a new study. The high temperatures over northern Russia have fuelled massive wildfires, set normally moist peat bogs ablaze and thawed permafrost, adding to worry over the potential impact on the global climate of rapid shifts in...

Scientists unravel secrets of ultra-black fish swimming the deepest depths

"In the deep, open ocean, there is nowhere to hide and a lot of hungry predators," said zoologist Karen Osborn of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, a co-author of the research published in the journal Current Biology. At such depths, bioluminescence - light emission by living organisms - is the only light...