A sponge seen in Papahānaumokuākea during an expedition on Exploration Vessel Nautilus in 2022. Image courtesy of Ocean Exploration Trust. This week: Sixgill shark aggregations and hidden diversity in glass sponges. Plus, get ready…
This is a new species from the genus Tomopteris, commonly known as gossamer worms. Tomopterids spend their entire lives in the water column, living just below the surface to over 4,000 meters. Little is…
This sea star (Atheraster arandae) was seen eating a bamboo coral (Jasonisis sp.) while diving on Rose Atoll during the 2017 American Samoa expedition. Image courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2017 American Samoa. This week:…
A squid documented by ROV SuBastian at 500 m depth in the Southern Atlantic Ocean during the “Animals as Living Bioreactors” expedition. Image courtesy of ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute. This week: An Aleutian…
An owlfish documented at 1,318 m depth in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Argentina. During the “Animals as Living Bioreactors” expedition, researchers studied various marine species participating in diel vertical…
NOAA Ocean Exploration’s recently released environmental DNA data help us better understand what lives in the deep ocean. Among these data is evidence of a wide variety of deep-sea organisms, including deep-sea corals…
The Organising Committee for celebrations around the 50th anniversary of the discovery of hydrothermal vents, in collaboration with the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) Art, Science and Policy Task Force, invites artists from a…
A notable observation during Papahānaumokuākea ROV and Mapping expedition Dive 10 was a high abundance of predatory chitons. These chitons were observed frequently throughout the latter portion of the dive, often among the…