Conceptual image of the system demonstrated during the Exploration of the Deep Ocean with Teams of Long-Endurance Ocean Robots project. A Wave Glider uncrewed surface vessel provides navigational ...

The upcoming expedition is part of a multi-year collaborative effort to restore deep-sea habitats in the Gulf of Mexico that ...

Over the past two years, NOAA Ocean Exploration and its partners have mapped approximately 267,500 square kilometers (103,300 ...

Explore and document a collection of nationally significant shipwrecks in the deep waters (130-480 feet) of Lake Michigan’s Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary In the summers of 2025 ...

The coloration of animals in the ocean follows a surprisingly regular pattern by depth, most likely tied to how light penetrates ocean water and an animal’s ability to blend in with its surroundings.

The deep scattering layer (or DSL) is a region in the water column where there is a high density of marine organisms that reflect sound. During World War II, technicians using the then newly invented ...

The life of a coral is complicated. After beginning life drifting or swimming in the water, a coral larva eventually settles to the seafloor. Once anchored, the larva grows into a small, sea ...

Light in the ocean decreases with depth, with minimal light penetrating between 200-1,000 meters (656-3,280 feet) and depths below 1,000 meters receiving no light from the surface. The importance of ...

When considering which deep-sea creature has the biggest teeth, the answer depends on what you mean by “biggest!” The fangtooth Anoplogaster cornuta has the biggest teeth of any ocean animal compared ...

It’s October. The days are getting shorter and cooler, leaves are changing colors and starting to fall, a new fiscal year has begun for the federal government, and Halloween is just around the corner.