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: 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: 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
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The new scientific report from Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) member Fauna & Flora International (FFI) sets out evidence that the risk posed by deep-sea mining to biodiversity and vital ocean services is too great to take.
As a result of the report, Sir David Attenborough has called for a moratorium on deep-sea mining.
Continue reading SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH CALLS FOR A MORATORIUM ON DEEP-SEA MINING
Source: CORDIS EU research results
ATLAS Press release
A new model has projected that current trends in climate change could place over 50% of North Atlantic cold-water coral habitat at risk, while suitable habitats for commercially important deep-sea fish could shift by up to 1000 km northwards. These effects could have far-reaching impacts on the ocean, including significant loss of suitable habitats for deep-sea species, which will in turn affect economies and communities reliant on fish stocks.
Source: Mirror
Author: Michael Havis and Kelly-Ann Mills
A creature so rare that it has only a few recorded sightings across the world has been caught on camera by stunned scientists.
The benthic siphonophore, which looks like a single animal, is actually a “floating city” of many smaller organisms working together.29
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Source: ABC News
Author: By Tyne Logan and Ellie Honeybone
Details of what lives in the depths of a unique deep-sea canyon are set to be uncovered in an expedition underway on the south coast of Western Australia.
Source: Atlas Obscura
Author: Sabrina Imbler
Scientists dropped three alligators to the bottom of the ocean. One of them was never seen again.
Continue reading The Curious Case of the Deep-Sea Bone Worms and the Vanishing Underwater Gator
