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Unlike other known methane seeps, Jacó Scar is slightly warmer than the surrounding water and is a home for both cold-loving and heat-loving organisms.

The problem of dead batteries in trackers, which has plagued researchers in the field, has been overcome by researchers in Denmark.

Pyrolycus jaco, a type of eelpout, is found at a hydrothermal site off Costa Rica.

Pyrolycus jaco, a type of eelpout, is found at a hydrothermal site off Costa Rica.

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Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have helped identify a previously unknown species of fish that lives near an underwater methane seep near Costa Rica

A team of researchers led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography has discovered a new species of fish—a member of the eelpout family—that lives in the eastern Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica.

Researchers pulled a coelacanth caught in 1960 from its jar of alcohol in a museum and gave it an MRI. Doing so reveals some of the fish's mysterious ways.