In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Deep-sea mining endangers rare species, threatening biodiversity in the ocean's depths and raising critical questions about ...

April 10 (UPI) --Aquatic enthusiasts have an opportunity to join a virtual deep sea expedition ... unexplored underwater environment, including exotic sea sponges and coral structures.

“Although underwater, fish, corals, and many other sea creatures ... Coral reefs usually exist in shallow waters. But the study found depressions that went more than 200 meters deep throughout ...

“We haven’t got huge clouds of sediment that are drifting off down in the current, smothering coral ... Japan’s underwater resources in the decades ahead. With enormous deep-sea regions ...

The scan of the storied ship was carried out over three weeks in 2022 by Magellan, a deep-sea mapping company based ... It is the largest underwater 3D scan ever made, amounting to 16 terabytes ...

Without coral polyps, the dazzling underwater cities we admire simply would not exist. Coral polyps are truly fascinating organisms. They belong to the same family as jellyfish and sea anemones ...

Snapchatting deep in the ocean sounds like ... off the Mexican island of Cozumel to show off sea life normally only caught with special underwater equipment. SEE ALSO: Spectacles have FINALLY ...

It was once a coral reef. If we go back in time, 425 million years- Oh, just a few years. Few years. Chicago was actually south of the equator and it was in a shallow, tropical sea, underwater.

“Although underwater ... deep throughout the Farasan Bank coral reef system,” she said. CEO of the National Center for Wildlife and contributor to the study Dr. Mohammad Qurban stated: “This research ...

They are voracious predators, consuming many species of native fish and contributing to the decline of coral reef communities ... such species are scarcely found in Florida. Pufferfish in sea ...

Scientists in the South China Sea scooped up some muck, sifted through it and found the “rarely encountered” animal. Take a ...