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…
An Iridogorgia coral photographed at 1,303 m deep while exploring the geology of the oceanic core complex features at the Kane Fracture Zone at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Image courtesy of ROV SuBastian /…
This Casper octopus was seen at a depth of over 4,100 m during the Deep-Sea Habitats of the Cook Islands expedition on the Exploration Vessel Nautilus. Image courtesy of Ocean Exploration Trust. This…
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…
We are pleased to announce that issue 26 of Deep-Sea Life is now available! As usual, this edition covers the top stories in deep-ocean science and policy since the last edition back in…
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…