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Patrick Star? Scientists discover 57 new deep-sea species
1+ hour, 1+ min ago (42+ words) The sea star was documented on the seafloor of the Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon, off Argentina. A deep-sea exploration team has discovered 57 new species – including one they compare to a SpongeBob SquarePants character. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute via…...
"World's deepest fish" caught on camera for first time by scientists — over 27,000 feet below the surface
2+ hour, 49+ min ago (458+ words) Updated on: May 7, 2023 / 7:51 PM EDT / CBS News A massive research initiative to explore deep-sea creatures brought discoveries to light in the northern Pacific Ocean last year, when scientists filmed and captured three fish at depths never recorded before. The milestone…...
Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks To Its 2026 Minimum
2+ hour, 27+ min ago (114+ words) Wollongong-based online news outlet covering Australia and beyond. If you have anything newsworthy - a story, video or picture to share with us, please email us. You might also like Balancing Screen Time for Healthy Mind & Digital Well-Being Cooking Up Joy:…...
Deep-sea denizens go years without food with clever biological fix
5+ hour, 20+ min ago (687+ words) A pill bug dwelling under a garden pot curls its body into a tiny armored ball as self-defense. Far below the ocean surface, some of its much larger relatives face a harder problem: how to stay alive when the next…...
Oʻahu teen raises thousands for coral reef research at HIMB
7+ hour, 32+ min ago (224+ words) When Azi Moses-Khoii was a fifth-grader at Hawaiʻi Technology Academy, his teacher Ms. Gillespie, challenged students to develop a passion project as the culmination of their elementary education. Every spring since 2024, Moses-Khoii dedicates two to three weeks to comb the…...
Unprecedented hole opened up in Antarctic winter sea ice
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (181+ words) Sea ice covers the ocean near the Antarctic continent, but levels have decreased notably over the past ten years. Credit: Shane Gross/Nature Picture Library Low sea ice coverage around Antarctica this year and others has signalled a large shift…...
Unprecedented polynya forms in Antarctic winter ice — Nature
5+ hour, 15+ min ago (152+ words) An unprecedented area of open water has formed in the winter sea ice near Antarctica. Its area is roughly equal to that of Portugal, and so-called rivers in the sky — flows of moisture in the atmosphere — helped keep it unfrozen....
Why Is the South Pole 28°C Colder Than the North Pole in Summer?
11+ hour, 16+ min ago (638+ words) On 21 July 1983, a thermometer at Vostok Station in Antarctica read −89.2°C, the coldest air temperature ever measured on Earth. The coldest reading in the Arctic, taken in Greenland in 1991, was nearly 20 degrees warmer. The sun doesn’t explain the gap. In…...
Seagrass bounces back in Cairns, but fish populations are changed
17+ hour, 7+ min ago (617+ words) Seagrass meadows off Cairns have recovered to pre-flood levels after a 98% collapse, but a 34-year study shows the fish living in them have reorganised into a different community. Seagrass meadows off Cairns in tropical Queensland have recovered to pre-flood levels…...
AZTI tests system for observing and identifying seabed fauna
23+ hour, 51+ min ago (80+ words) AZTI tests AI system for marine fauna monitoring diarioeuskadi.eus Image of an underwater lander used in the ItsasLANDER project, with marine fauna around. AZTI has tested an autonomous system for observing and identifying seabed fauna as part of the…...