Researchers from the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean and Environment helped lead the charge of underwater discovery in 2025, leading research cruises that each employed one of the ...
When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor.
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99.999 Percent of the Deep Ocean Is Unexplored - Its Secrets Are Key to Understanding Our Planet
We have visually explored less than 0.001 percent of the deep sea floor. To put that in perspective, 66 percent of the planet is deep ocean, and 99.999 percent of that ocean is unknown to us. Like ...
Scientists have discovered a new species of isopod in the deep waters of the South China Sea — though its name has come from a galaxy far, far away. According to experts, the Bathynomus vaderi can ...
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How Much of the Ocean Have We Actually Discovered?
Ever wondered how much of our vast, mysterious oceans we’ve uncovered? Spoiler alert: not nearly as much as you’d think!
A brooding mother octopus shelters her eggs behind two different types of corals. The image was made by pilots using a robot to explore the north wall of the Mar Del Plata submarine canyon in ...
Humanity is rapidly altering a vast ecosystem that sustains life on land and sea. But restoration is nearly impossible without understanding it better.
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The world’s oceans are increasingly becoming an important new frontier in the geopolitical and economic race for critical minerals, with countries fast-tracking plans for deep-sea mining. Meanwhile, ...
A giant congregation of crabs filmed 1,350 feet below the surface in the ocean off of Chile. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute / YouTube An age of discovery is upon us. Earth is an ocean planet, with ...
The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and scientists think it could be an ecological haven. A new study describes a four ...
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