After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, ...

BOULDER, CO--(Marketwired - March 14, 2017) - The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), a private, non-profit center for ocean research and technology development, is working with 3D at ...

MOSS LANDING -- They live in a harsh underwater world that is very dark and very cold. Most folks will go their whole lives without ever seeing them or coming to understand their beauty, their ...

“Doesn’t it feel otherworldly out here?” says Colleen Durkin from the lower deck of the Rachel Carson as it glides out from the Moss Landing Harbor more than an hour before sunrise. Durkin, the lead ...

Photo courtesy Glosten © 2021 MBARI Photo courtesy Glosten © 2021 MBARI The R/V David Packard will replace MBARI’s current flagship research vessel, the R/V ...

We here at Nerdist love watching videos about the ocean. Especially when there’s critters in them that we never even knew existed. Like the barreleye fish and its translucent head. Or the carnivorous ...

The deep sea is the largest living space on Earth, but many of the animals and habitats far beneath the ocean’s surface remain shrouded in mystery. MBARI’s advanced underwater robots, including ...

A potentially undescribed siphonophore. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) An oceanic expedition has turned up 31 new ...

MOSS LANDING >> The sound of a blue whale is deep, profound and ominous. To the human ear it is inaudible. But if it is amplified, the voice of the largest mammal on Earth can be an awesome experience ...

Axial Seamount, a large underwater volcano about 470 kilometers (290 miles) offshore of the Oregon coast, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world-and one of the most intensively studied.

MOSS LANDING, CA — About 100 years ago, marine biologists hauled the first vampire squid up from the depths of the sea. Since that time, perhaps a dozen scientific papers have been published on this ...

MBARI scientists recently returned home from a seven-day expedition where they conducted the first controlled-source electromagnetic survey in Antarctic waters. Funded by the Polar Research ...