The Shark That Ambushes Prey by Blending into the Ocean Floor

To be successful in the wild, you need to be innovative with how you hunt. With each animal fighting for their own survival, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Found This Mysterious Golden Orb on the Seafloor Nearly Three Years Ago. Now, They Finally Know What It Is

After a long, winding road of tests, researchers at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and other ...
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How AI is mapping the entire ocean floor

The deep-sea remains one of the most unexplored regions on Earth, due in large part to the immense challenges posed by its depth and vastness. Yet, the recent advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...
EcoPortal.net

Hidden beneath the ocean floor, giant frozen waves of stone may have solved a mystery dating back 43 million years

Deep beneath the ocean floor, researchers have found giant frozen waves of sediment. What does this explain about how the ...
MIT Technology Review

Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining

But it isn’t doing it alone; for a month starting this week, it will deploy two oblong neon submersibles as the project’s ...
NPR

The U.S. wants to mine the deep sea for rare minerals. Science shows what's at stake

Some countries, including the U.S., want to mine the seafloor for rare earth elements used in smartphones and electric cars. But other nations are concerned about the environmental impact. Sponsor ...

China Publishes Maps Detailing Minerals on the Ocean Floor

The new deep-sea atlas underscores Beijing’s interest in ocean mining, its military ambitions and its claims to disputed ...
Science Daily

Earth is splitting open beneath the Pacific Northwest, scientists say

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...
The Telegraph

Mining the ocean floor: 5 deep-sea sources of critical minerals essential to technology, and the fragile marine life at risk

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Leonardo Macelloni, University of Mississippi (THE CONVERSATION) You may be hearing a ...