But more than a decade of mapping and exploration "revealed one of the largest deep-sea coral reef habitats found ... but until we had a complete map of the region, we didn't know how extensive ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Temple University biology professor Erik Cordes about the discovery of the world's largest known deep-sea coral habitat. Now we want to take you to the bottom of the ...

The Ocean Discovery XPrize was today awarded to teams using uncrewed deep-sea vehicles to map the ocean floor and trace chemical signals underwater. The goal is to develop a comprehensive atlas by ...

There is, however, currently an effort underway to create a definitive map of the ocean floor, called Seabed 2030. Still, there are huge gaps in what’s known of the deep sea. Of the 2.2 million ...

The formation was discovered by deep-sea researchers at the Ocean Explorer Trust. Each day, the organisation provides live footage of their journey scouring the ocean floor as part of the E/V ...

"But given how little we've seen and how biased it is, we can't really give you a global map of all the habitats of the deep sea, because we just haven't been to all of them," she says. Past ...

rather than in deep international waters. That’s partly because prospectors can’t target mining operations without accurate maps of most of the sea floor, but also because international laws ...

Scientists and environmentalists alike are now concerned that a full, detailed map of the ocean floor might lead to the destruction of delicate, mostly unknown habitats if deep-sea miners are ...

Here’s how it works. A massive deep-sea ravine in the Pacific Ocean has been mapped out in greater detail than any other part of the world's seafloor. The new maps of the "deep-sea Grand Canyon ...

This is partly due to the challenges associated with exploring the deep sea, where pressure is extremely high and light levels are low. Researchers typically map the sea bed using remote-operated ...

Of all Earth's major ecosystems, the deep sea is one of the least understood—even though it is the largest. But a new comprehensive study that looked at 30 years of video footage from remotely ...