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The deep-sea giant few people ever see

This video shows a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) swimming beneath the ocean surface in deep blue water. The whale is ...
Somewhere in the permanent darkness more than two miles beneath the Galápagos Islands, a remotely operated vehicle caught ...
Microeledone galapagensis, a tiny blue octopus, is new to science ...
The development of miniaturised electronic tags that can be attached to animals has been one of the most spectacular developments for biology, environmental science and wildlife conservation in the ...
A newly identified species was found in the Galápagos Islands, one of the world’s most significant biodiverse areas. The tiny ...
Lurking in the depths of the ocean are countless species that have never been seen by humans before. As part of a project to name 1,000 of these unknown animals by 2030, 24 new species of deep-sea ...
There's increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths isn't fully understood. A new review led by our scientists is giving us our ...
An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...