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The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) captured stunning footage of the strawberry squid during a deep sea dive. Check out the video above for a close-up of this sea creature that is ...
The video from MBARI gives a rare look at a viperfish swimming around in its habitat. ... Scientists are currently working to find out the effects deep sea mining may have on the creatures living ...
In 2008, MBARI deployed the Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS)—the first deep-sea cabled observatory offshore of the continental United States. MARS enables researchers to hook up a variety of scientific instruments such as earthquake monitors and low-light video cameras and leave them on the deep seafloor for extended periods of time.
Chondrocladia lyra, also known as the lyre sponge or harp sponge, is a species of carnivorous deep-sea sponge first discovered off the Californian coast living at depths of 10,800–11,500 feet (3,300–3,500 m) by Welton L. Lee, Henry M Reiswig, William C. Austin, and Lonny Lundsten from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
The million-gallon Open Sea community exhibit contains a school of Pacific sardines that, in 2011, numbered 14,000 individuals. [17] Holding 1.2 million US gallons (4,500,000 L), the Open Sea community exhibit is the aquarium's largest tank. [s] Made of fiberglass-reinforced plastic, it is 80 feet (24 m) long [18] and 35 feet (11 m) deep. Its ...
Scientists studying deep-sea anglerfish have long known about the bizarre mismatch between the species’ whiskered females and teeny-tiny males. But they’ve never captured video of live fish ...
Tiburonia granrojo is one of the largest sea jellies and unusual in a number of ways. They live at ocean depths of 600 to 1,500 metres (2,000 to 4,900 ft) and have been found across the Pacific Ocean in the Gulf of California, Monterey Bay, Hawaii and Japan. It is very likely that these jellies are exhibiting deep-sea gigantism.
By: Lauren Seaver MONTEREY, Calif. —Scientists found a species of octopus in the Monterey Bay that very little is known about. They're calling them "Adorabilis" because one characteristic is ...