Deepest Living Fish Discovered
Category: fish
Interesting footage of ghostly white fish at 7.7km underwater
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Category: fish
Interesting footage of ghostly white fish at 7.7km underwater
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Category: deep sea creatures
An older video that just made its way onto YouTube of the critters that make their homes around hydrothermal vents....
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Category: antarctica
Researchers from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research have discovered hundreds of potentially new species. Part of the International Polar Year survey program, the critters were hauled up from the briny depths around Antarctica. Among the 30,000...
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Category: deep sea creatures
Those scoundrels at Deep Sea News narrowly beat us to this story. But the video is spectacular! Click here to watch it, and read their much-better-informed-than-ours-would-have-been description....
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Category: new discoveries
A voyage sponsored by the Census of Marine Life (CoML) has netted some newly discovered species in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. The trawling net was pulled at the level between 1000 meters and 5000 meters deep. About 500...
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Category: diving
A new book, "The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss" by Claire Nouvian, a French journalist and film director, reveals haunting images of some of the most bizarre creatures on the globe, ones that live in the deepest parts...
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