A team of researchers has revealed the first video ever taken of this enormous predator, the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) 🦑, in its natural deep-water habitat 🌊—and managed to spot the animal in its youth 🐙.
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Science
Colossal squid filmed in its natural habitat for the first time
The enigmatic predator, the heaviest known invertebrate, had never been seen alive in deep water
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Newly Discovered Deep Sea 'Spiders' 🕷️ Farm Bacteria 🦠 on Their Own Bodies in a Symbiosis 🤝 Quite Unlike Anything Seen Before
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ScienceAlert
New Discovery of Deep Sea 'Spiders' Is Unlike Anything We've Seen Before
A phenomenon that's never been documented.
An international team of marine taxonomists has identified 24 new species of deep-sea amphipods—including an entirely new evolutionary superfamily—from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the central Pacific Ocean, marking a crucial step in documenting abyssal biodiversity.
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Scientists discover deep-sea whale graveyard at 6,000 meters, where carcasses up to 5 million years old support a previously unknown ecosystem
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Nature
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
Nature - Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that...
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Microplastics reach even 2,000 meters below the ocean surface: First cross-ocean study reveals how microplastics accumulate and were detected in 92% of deep-sea hydrothermal vent animals. Polystyrene, widely used in consumer products and packaging materials, was the most abundant.
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EurekAlert!
Microplastics reach even 2,000 meters below the ocean surface, study finds first cross-ocean study reveals how microplastics accumulate…
A research team led by Dr. Se-Joo Kim and Dr. Jinyoung Jeong at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), in collaboration with researchers from the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), has conducted the world's…
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