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New species of octopus discovered in a deep-sea canyon
A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off ...
Underwater camera captures elusive tentacled creature 3 miles below ocean surface
Marine scientists have captured images of a mysterious tentacled creature that lives more than 3 miles below the ocean surface.
Scientists stunned as deep-sea camera captures elusive creature nearly 5,000 meters below the ocean's surface: 'The animal disappears from view'
A decade ago astrophysicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), operated by the California ...
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Humans Have Seen Only 0.001 Percent of the World's Deep Seas, Leaving Most of the Planet a Vast Mystery
Humans have been exploring the deep seas, which make up 66 percent of our planet’s surface, for decades. But a new study ...
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Do We Really Know Less about the Deep Sea Than the Moon or Mars?
That’s a shockingly tiny amount, considering we’ve now managed to obtain high-resolution images of practically all of the ...
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Only .001 percent of Earth's deep seafloor has ever been directly observed
A new study reveals that less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually recorded, exposing major gaps in ocean ...
Deep-sea creature with ‘massive eyes’ discovered in canyon. It’s a new species
Thousands of feet below the surface of the Indian Ocean, a reddish sea creature with “massive eyes” used its “long” arms to ...
Only 0.001% of the ocean floor has been explored - posing significant global challenges
Despite covering most of Earth's surface and providing crucial resources, the deep ocean remains largely unseen and ...
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Deep-sea creature with ‘massive eyes’ discovered in canyon. It’s a new species
Scientists found a deep-sea creature with “massive eyes” in ... A pair of Opisthoteuthis carnarvonensis, or Carnarvon flapjack octopuses. Photos from Western Australian Museum via Verhoeff ...