Source: Natural History Museum
Author: Josh Davis
It was once thought that very little could survive in the dark depths of the oceans. But the more researchers look, the more they realise that this seemingly inhospitable environment is actually teeming with life.
Continue reading New species from the abyssal ocean hint at incredible deep sea diversity
Source: ABC News
Author: Joshua Learn
Forget the white whale — some of the most rarely seen albinos on the planet are deep-water sharks that spend most of their lives in a world without light.
Continue reading Albino sharks among fascinating species in ‘horribly underexplored’ deep sea
Source: NPR
Author: Lauren Sommer
Deep in the Pacific Ocean, six-foot-long Humboldt squid are known for being aggressive, cannibalistic and, according to new research, good communicators.
Continue reading Deep Sea Squid Communicate by Glowing Like E-Readers
Source: Forbes
Author: Nishan Degnarain
During the global coronavirus shutdown over the past few weeks, there has been significant coverage about nature rebounding around the world.
Source: New Scientist
Author: Helen Scales
The alligator lay motionless on a flat expanse of mud and stared into the camera with a toothy grin. Two metres long, its skin covered in dark green scales, it wasn’t in the usual location for a dead reptile.
Continue reading The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses
Source: Global News
Author: Josh K. Elliott
Scientists call it a siphonophore Apolemia, but you can call it the world’s longest “long stringy stingy thingy,” the giant alien tentacle or just “the entity.”
Continue reading Massive, deep-sea ‘entity’ leaves ocean scientists ‘blown away’
Source: The Conversation
Author: Lucy Woodall
Oceans cover over 70% of our “blue” planet and are vital to its health. For instance carbon moves in and out of the ocean and can be stored there for thousands of years. Oceans are also a source of food and livelihood to millions of people, and to the economies of coastal countries. They are also the largest habitable space on the planet and house many different organisms.
But there’s a great deal that scientists still don’t know about the world’s oceans.
Source: Popular Mechanics
Author: Daisy Hernandez
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has been studying deep-sea sponges and other benthic fauna by capturing video footage and taking time-lapse photos to figure out what really goes on deep beneath the ocean’s surface.
Continue reading Behold the Super Long Sneeze of a Deep Sea Sponge
Source: Gizmodo Earther
Author: Brain Kahn
Australia’s most famous coral resides on its Pacific coast. The Great Barrier Reef is amazing, to be sure, and a bellwether of how climate change is impacting reefs around the world.
Continue reading A Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Coral Garden Could Unlock the Ocean’s Secrets
Source: The Guardian
Author: Karen McVeigh
Proposed mining of seabed could destroy unstudied ecosystems and disrupt vital carbon-storing functions, says naturalist
Sir David Attenborough has urged governments to ban deep sea mining, following a study warning of “potentially disastrous” risks to the ocean’s life-support systems if it goes ahead.
The study, by Fauna and Flora International (FFI), warns proposed plans to mine the seabed could cause significant loss of biodiversity, disruption of the ocean’s “biological pump”, and the loss of microbes important for storing carbon. The process, requiring machines operating thousands of metres under the sea, could also create plumes of sediment that smother areas far from the mining sites and kill wildlife.
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