PDF | Whale falls in the deep ocean represent a form of chemosynthetic ecosystem that hosts a suite of specialised fauna. We report three species of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

Among the expedition's most recent scientific outcomes are studies led by Dr Chong Chen, Senior Scientist with Tenure at JAMSTEC.

Gland, Switzerland, 9 July 2026 (IUCN) – Deep-sea mining threatens over half of molluscs reliant on hydrothermal vents, today’s update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has revealed. In Aust...

Over half of mollusc species that cluster around underwater vents and ‌hold promising potential for medicine and technology are at risk of going extinct due to increasing deep-sea mining, the world's ...

PDF | On Mar 7, 2025, Chong Chen and others published Laubierinid snails are associates of crinoids and a modern analogue of Paleozoic platyceratids | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

This snail became the first animal living on deep-sea hydrothermal vents to be added to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species—it also turns poisonous sulfur into armor

PDF | Chemosymbiotic vesicomyid clams in the subfamily Pliocardiinae are a major component of deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems, yet their diversity... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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Following the Ocean Census-JAMSTEC expedition, scientists have confirmed the discovery of 38 new species and identified 28 further potential new species across two of Japan’s most understudied deep-sea regions: the Nankai Trough and the Shichiyo Seamount Chain.

Phylogenomics is a transformative approach in systematics, conservation biology, and biomedical research, enabling the inference of evolutionary relationships by leveraging hundreds to thousands of g...

Widespread shallow-water thyasirid clams show metabolic integration with sulfur-oxidizing symbionts.