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 ...
Seafloor cameras find creatures eating each other in remote South Atlantic islands
The remote South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic are a perfect place to find new and rarely seen species, and a Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition in the region is finding many of those species ...
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 ...
Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica, Revealing Tentacled Creatures Beneath
In large part thanks to being in the right place at the right time, researchers discovered a thriving marine ecosystem ...
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Seafloor cameras find creatures eating each other in remote South Atlantic islands
A monthlong mission to search the region’s seafloor was launched Feb. 20. In that time, the team has seen a buffet of predation, including instances where experts weren’t quite sure what was ...
‘Abundantly large’ deep-sea creature — ‘all legs’ — found off Antarctica. See it
While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the surface, the machine’s camera captured a creature that ...