Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...
The ocean is home to a vast array of different animals, each with its own traits. These include different forms of mating, ...
When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only the surface. Venture deeper, far below the last reach of sunlight, and you ...
Some deep-sea fish may be able to see light in a different way from most other vertebrates, according to a new study. The ...
The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...
In July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through the eyes of an underwater robot as they explored the Mar del Plata Canyon.
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Scientists stunned as deep-sea microbes supercharge on 'marine snow'
Far below the reach of sunlight, the deep ocean has long been cast as a biological desert, a place where microbes eke out an ...
The yeti crab is a strange species because of its furry appearance. Read here to learn about why these crabs are furry!
The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...
Twenty-seven photographs from seven deep-sea localities in the North Atlantic reveal cirrate octopods in their natural habitat. The photographs demonstrate that these octopods are benthopelagic, ...
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