Therefore, it is no surprise that people have found some truly strange things when exploring them. From ancient statues to ...
When we think of marine life, we usually picture colorful coral reefs or dense seaweed forests filled with fish and other ...
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Nearly 800 deep-sea species — most never named — just came back from 160 days mapping the Pacific seabed, where 90% of life remains a mystery
Eighty steel boxes, each roughly the size of a microwave oven, were lowered to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean between late ...
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Dozens of deep-sea species just surfaced from the Pacific’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone — including 24 new crustaceans and a rare entirely new branch of life
Somewhere between Hawaii and Mexico, more than four kilometers below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, the seafloor is ...
New research shows why some shelly critters flourished in the ocean’s harshest habitats — and others didn’t Jack Tamisiea Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea ...
Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...
A large international team of marine researchers monitored the seafloor surrounding the corpse of a whale that had sunk 4,920 ...
More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...
Researchers say the polymetallic nodules that mining companies hope to harvest from the deep-ocean seafloor may be a source of oxygen for the animals, plants and bacteria that live there. This ...
Thousands of genes from deep-sea marine life are being used to create new commercial products ranging from pharmaceuticals to cosmetics. Genes are segments of DNA that provide instructions for making ...
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