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Scientists stunned as deep-sea camera captures elusive creature nearly 5,000 meters below the ocean's surface: 'The animal disappears from view'
A decade ago astrophysicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), operated by the California ...
Scars from the world's first deep sea mining test 50 years on
Half a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the ...
Deep-sea muck hid eyeless creature with ‘nipple-like’ bumps. It’s a new species
Scientists in the South China Sea scooped up some muck, sifted through it and found the “rarely encountered” animal. Take a ...
Underwater camera captures elusive tentacled creature 3 miles below ocean surface
Marine scientists have captured images of a mysterious tentacled creature that lives more than 3 miles below the ocean surface.
Most terrifying deep-sea creatures ever found as scientists reveal they’ve explored only 0.001% of ocean floor
LURKING beneath the ocean’s surface are a host of terrifying creatures most humans will only see in their nightmares. Yet, ...
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As Norway Considers Deep-Sea Mining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts
In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...
Volcanic eruption in deep ocean ridge seen by scientists for first time
Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...
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Deep-sea muck hid eyeless creature with ‘nipple-like’ bumps. It’s a new species
Getty Images/iStockphoto Aboard a research vessel in the South China Sea, scientists scooped up some deep-sea muck and began ... several unusual-looking marine worms. Researchers took a closer ...