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A 32.2-centimetre 'colossogiant' isopod collected in Puerto Rico in the 1980s sat unrecognized in a German university collection for ~40 years — until a student and a curator revealed it as a species new to science, complete with a 15-million-year family history.
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Vent limpets born in deep-sea darkness travel up to the sunlit upper ocean, ride surface currents to new hydrothermal vents, and the chemistry of their millimetre shells finally proves it — a University of Tokyo team's discovery published in Science Advances.
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Half a kilometre down off Costa Rica, metre-tall yellow coral trees rise from seafloors carpeted with brittle stars — so distinct that science had to invent a new family, Laurinqueidae, and name it in Tolkien's Elvish.
A two-week taxonomy workshop in Buenos Aires has confirmed 57 new marine species — including Loki, a horned sea cucumber named for the Norse trickster god — from a South Atlantic canyon twice as deep as the Grand Canyon.
For two and a half years, a glowing golden dome found 3,250 metres down in the Gulf of Alaska puzzled NOAA's scientists. The answer, finally revealed, is lovelier than every guess: it was the golden anchor a giant deep-sea anemone left behind.
A hidden ridge off California is becoming one of the ocean’s most exciting living laboratories. With fine-scale mapping, long-term cameras, and coral transplant experiments, Sur Ridge is showing how deep-sea science can be both precise and hopeful.
Scientists have mapped a vast whale graveyard in the Diamantina Zone of the southeastern Indian Ocean, where ancient bones and active whale falls are supporting deep-sea life almost 7 kilometres down. The discovery is giving researchers a rare, beautifully specific look at biodiversity, carbon storage, and whale history across 5.3 million years.
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