The ecosystem is home to seamounts, hydrothermal vents, deep-sea trenches and species found only in its freezing water. They are called the South Sandwich Islands, and researchers with the Schmidt ...
They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out.
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In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...
A harrowing bit of footage has resurfaced, capturing the moment where a camera was gripped and attacked by a creature in the ...
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Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific, an iridescent creature waits in ambush ... The bristle worms, formally known as ...
Some of the creatures that call the depths of the WZFZ home were undiscovered until 2017, and now, a manned deep-sea mission ... collected holothuroids, also known as sea cucumbers, from the ...