News tagged with deep sea animals

Glass sponge as a living climate archive

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate scientists have discovered a new archive of historical sea temperatures. With the help of the skeleton of a sponge that belongs to the Monorhaphis chuni species and that lived in the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New study provides insight into Southern Ocean food web

One of the most comprehensive studies of animals in the Southern Ocean reveals a region that is under threat from the effects of environmental change.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

British oceanographers find new species in Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team sailing on the vessel James Cook has been studying the unique habitat surrounding deep sea vents in the Indian Ocean far off the south-east coast of Africa. The vents, created ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

First controlled experiments on ocean acidification in the deep sea

(PhysOrg.com) -- After six years of design and testing, MBARI scientists have a sophisticated new tool for studying the effects of ocean acidification on deep-sea animals. This complex system, the Free-Ocean ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New discovery -- copepods share 'diver's weight belt' technique with whales

A deep-sea mystery has been solved with the discovery that the tiny 3 mm long marine animals, eaten by herring, cod and mackerel, use the same buoyancy control as whales.

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Creatures from the deep exposed

An academic from the University of Plymouth has helped unravel the largely unexplored weird and wonderful world of deep-sea marine life.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ecological change in the abyss -- the Amperima event

Even in the dark abyss of the deep ocean animal communities can undergo rapid, widespread and radical changes. Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre are at the forefront of monitoring these changes ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Understanding human threats to the Earth's largest habitat -- the deep sea

(PhysOrg.com) -- When most people think about the deep sea, they picture broad expanses of muddy seafloor. However, the majority of deep-sea animals, and perhaps the majority of all animals on Earth, live ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Sea spiders and pom-pom anemones

(PhysOrg.com) -- Creeping slowly across the deep seafloor on long, spindly legs, giant sea spiders are found in many deep-sea areas. But, as with many deep-sea animals, we know very little about how sea spiders ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 15, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast