Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

Scientists have made the first comprehensive marine wildlife size database to help scientists better understand ocean ...

World ‘Armored’ creatures with ‘whip’ tails and four other new species discoveries By Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization June 6, 2025 1:26 PM ...

Another 2023 study estimated that scientists had identified fewer than 1,000 of up to 8,000 species in one region of the deep sea called the Clarion–Clipperton zone, which stretches the width of ...

Scientists Race To Identify Deep-Sea Species Amid Growing Mining Interest The first stocktake of data from scientific explorations in the CCZ (Clarion-Clipperton Zone) , published in 2023, found ...

As deep-sea mining interests in the Pacific Ocean grow, scientists have discovered several rare and as yet unnamed aquatic species. Campaigners warn that mining in the waters between Hawaii and ...

That represents about 14% of the labeled images in the FathomNet database. The players’ contributions will train AI underwater bots to recognize different animals on their deep sea missions.

HANOI, Vietnam — Deep in the waters off Vietnam’s coast, scientists have discovered a new species of giant isopod — a creature that looks like a massively oversized roly-poly or pill bug. Named ...

Multiple expeditions have journeyed to the ridge, but across the 10 sea mounts explored on this one, they collected 20 potential new-to-science species. The Casper octopus is a rare cutie.

The deep sea is home to weird and wonderful creatures that, over millions of years, have evolved specific traits to survive the extreme conditions of their habitat. These adaptations to their ...

The sea lions' trackers enabled scientists to place different habitat types on an ocean map. Credit: Angelakis et al, Frontiers in Marine Science/DOI 10.3389/fmars.2024.1425554 ...

A new study shows the potential to use sea lion-mounted cameras to better study the ocean floor - and sea lions themselves.