Ancient seafloor creature grew like modern marine invertebrates, study suggests
The growth and lifespan of Parvancorina minchami, small anchor-shaped animals that lived on the seafloor about 550 million ...
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Stunning Antarctic Sea Creatures Discovered after Iceberg Breaks Away
A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...
‘Flourishing’ deep-sea life found when Antarctic iceberg breaks off. ‘Untouched beauty’
Researchers were in a remote region of the Bellingshausen Sea on a different expedition when the iceberg calved, giving them a chance to change course and explore a region never before accessible to ...
Race to name creatures of the deep as mining interest grows
In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...
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Massive iceberg breakaway exposes undiscovered creatures beneath Antarctic waters
Giant sea spiders, octopuses, ice fish, corals, and sponges—some likely to be hundreds of years old—were discovered in a ...
‘Abundantly large’ deep-sea creature — ‘all legs’ — found off Antarctica. See it
The ecosystem is home to seamounts, hydrothermal vents, deep-sea trenches and species found only in its freezing water. They ...
Scientists thought this Antarctic sea floor would be barren. But it's teeming with life
When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ...
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Race to name creatures of the deep as mining interest grows
A snapshot of any given patch of CCZ seafloor might show just a solitary brittle star, but researchers seldom see the same creature twice. There are “huge numbers of rare species”, said Horton ...
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Race to name creatures of Pacific Ocean as mining interest grows
A snapshot of any given patch of CCZ seafloor might show just a solitary brittle star, but researchers seldom see the same creature twice. There are “huge numbers of rare species”, said Horton ...