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Stingrays’ bulging eyes and mouths make them much faster swimmers

2 September 2021

Stingrays have protruding eyes and mouths, which seem like they would make swimming less efficient, but they actually create vortices that let the rays swim faster

Deep-sea snailfish repairs its DNA to survive 7 km below the surface

13 May 2021

To survive 7000 metres below the surface of the sea, the Yap hadal snailfish has evolved advanced mechanisms for repairing its DNA and safeguarding its proteins

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Stingrays’ bulging eyes and mouths make them much faster swimmers

Deep-sea snailfish repairs its DNA to survive 7 km below the surface

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