22 Rare Deep Sea Images From NOAA Okeanos Explorer In Samoa
Okeanos Continues To Amaze With Deep Sea Dives In Samoa
NOAA is back to wowing us with incredible images of marine life from the deep sea with the latest Okeanos expedition. The first mission of the year is a series of deep dives with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) exploring the…
Deep Sea Big Eyed Squid Looks Too Silly To Be Real
This newly discovered big-eyed squid looks so goofy that it could easily be a character in Finding Nemo. The vivid purple color and especially those huge, widely spaced eyes gives this animal such a comical appearance that researchers couldn’t help…
Okeanos Explorer: Deepwater Wonders of Wake Atoll
NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer is currently exploring largely uncharted deep-sea ecosystems and seafloor in and around the Wake Atoll Unit of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM). You can follow along with the Okeanos Wake Atoll expedition now through August…
First video of coral bioluminescence in the deep sea
For the first time in history, deep-sea coral bioluminescence has been recorded in full-color HD video. The hypnotic video was captured in the deep sea off the coast of Oahu Hawaii and is a collaboration with Deep Ocean Exploration and Research (DOER)…
Top 8 New Deep Sea Creatures discovered in the last 7 years
Being covered in water, it’s quite slow and tedious work to explore the oceans either at the surface, or even harder at its depths. We’ve been exploring the secrets of the oceans for less than a century so it’s no surprise…
SciShow explains 7 things we don’t know about the ocean
The oceans are a deep, dark and still very mysterious place to humans, and indeed this is a great part of the reason for the appeal of saltater aquariums and reef tanks. But the ocean is not just mysterious to…
Fish farts or nightly migration could be causing the ocean to hum
For years scientist have been puzzled by a humming sound thousands of feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The humming was first noticed when scientists dropped hydrophones in the Ocean to study the songs of migrating humpback whales,…
This sea slug wants to be a fish so bad…
Most of us fantasize about being something we were not — Hermy wanted to be a dentist, everyone wanted to be like Mike and this sea slug wants to be a fish. Meet Phylliroe, a nudibranch that is about the size…
Giant amphipods and a ghostly snailfish from the deepest parts of the ocean
In our aquariums we often like to culture a diverse culture of ‘Pods’ including amphipods, copepods and ostracods but our tanks would look wildly different if we were aiming for an authentically deep sea refugium. Take for example these giant…
