Source: The New York Times
Author: Marion Renault
Deep-sea sponges are not known for their mobility. After all, they lack muscles, nervous systems and organs. And forget about fins or feet for traveling the Arctic seafloor.
Continue reading The Last Creature You’d Expect Left Mysterious Trails on the Ocean Floor
Source: Vice
Author: Samantha Cole
A 25-ton mining robot prototype broke free of its tethers this week and is just hanging out at 13,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean.
Continue reading Oops, This Dredging Company Lost Its Deep Sea Mining Robot
Source: Bloomberg
Author: Jonathan Tirone
A deep-sea mining robot on test mission to bring up rocks rich in cobalt and nickel from the floor of the Pacific Ocean has malfunctioned.
Continue reading Deep-Sea Mining Robot Lost on Cobalt-Rich Floor of Pacific
Source: AZoCleantech
The study was performed by ecologists from the Institute of Zoology of the University of Cologne. Across two decades, a team of researchers under Professor Dr Hartmut Arndt from the Institute of Zoology has put together a wealth of data that, for the first time, enables a comparison of the diversity of existing eukaryotes, or organisms with a cell nucleus.
Continue reading Study Demonstrates High, Very Specific Species Diversity of the Deep-Sea
Source: The Conversation
Author: Dimitris Taskiris
The deepest regions of the oceans still remain one of the least explored areas on Earth, despite their considerable scientific interest and the richness of lifeforms inhabiting them.
Continue reading Fish-inspired soft robot survives a trip to the deepest part of the ocean
Source: Stroud News
Author: Brad Young
Carrying home-made banners, the protestors joined others in Gloucester Docks and Sharpness on Sunday to demand the Government protect the ocean floor and wildlife.
Continue reading Greenpeace protest in Stroud against deep sea mining
Source: LiveScience
Author: Rachel Kaufman
In 1833, an almost perfectly spherical fish washed ashore in Greenland and was taken to zoologist Johannes Christopher Hagemann Reinhardt in Copenhagen, Denmark. This fish — later known as the footballfish, Himantolophus groenlandicus, or the man-gobbler — was the first anglerfish known to science, wrote Ted Pietsch, a systematist and evolutionary biologist, in his book “Oceanic Anglerfishes” (University of California Press, 2009).
Continue reading Anglerfish are stranger than science fiction
Source: Telegana Today
Bioluminescence is the property of a living organism to produce and emit light. Animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria show bioluminescence. A remarkable diversity of marine animals and microbes are able to produce their own light. It is found in many marine organisms such as bacteria, algae, jellyfish, worms, crustaceans, sea stars, fish, and sharks.
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Sponges: They are considered to be one of the most primitive forms of animal life, because they have neither locomotion organs nor a nervous system. A team around deep-sea scientist Antje Boetius has now discovered that sponges leave trails on the sea floor in the Arctic deep sea. They conclude that the animals might move actively — even if only a few centimetres per year. They are now publishing these unique findings in the journal Current Biology.
Source: ScienceDaily
Corals and sponges are important foundations in ocean ecosystems providing structure and habitats that shelter a high number of species like fish, crabs and other creatures, particularly in the seamounts and canyons of the deep sea. Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have discovered that when it comes to climate change not all deep-sea corals and sponges are affected the same and some could be threatened if average ocean temperatures continue to increase in the deep sea of the Northwest Atlantic.
Continue reading Climate change affects deep-sea corals and sponges differently
