Oceanography
'Prison' imprisoned eels and whales off Russia
A total of 11 grouper and 90 white whales were locked in cramped cages in Pacific waters near the city of Nakhodka in southeastern Russia, IFL Science reported on Novemb…
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Revealing new ecosystems under the deepest
Mariana groove or rift in the Mariana Islands, in the Pacific Northwest. The terrible depth of the Mariana Trench is even bigger than the tallest Mount Everest in the wo…
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'Shark cafe' in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
Large sharks live off California migrating to the waters between Baja California, Mexico and Hawaii, USA. It is an area of 260km wide with the nickname the white shark…
Oceanography
NASA will study the Hawaii sea volcano to find ways to hunt aliens
NASA will soon visit Hawaii's Lo 'ihi volcano, which is located at 0.9 km on the Pacific bottom, to find a way to ... hunt for life outside the solar system.
Oceanography
Nearly 100 tons of fish carcasses washed ashore on the Russian coast
Hundreds of thousands of Pacific herring fishes drifted to the coast of Piltun Bay on the island of Sakhalin, Russia, Sun reported on June 15.
Oceanography
What Is the Mariana Trench?
The Mariana Trench is a long, narrow depression in the western Pacific created where one tectonic plate bends and descends beneath another. It contains Challenger Deep,…
Oceanography
New giant octopus discovered off Alaska
The researchers identified a new octopus and described it in the American Malacological Bulletin.
Oceanography
The first bisexual shark caught a net of Taiwanese fishermen
The bisexual shark got caught in the dredging net south of the Taiwan Strait, and was pulled ashore in Xiamen, China.
Oceanography
The waters were isolated more than 1,500 years at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean
Casimir de Lavergne, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and his colleagues discovered that in the North Pacific region about 2 km from the…
Oceanography
Water-fearing fishes live in caves on cliffs
A fish that lives on the Pacific islands always hastily fled to a higher place to avoid the waves coming.
Oceanography
Three-tuna tuna causes turmoil in the salmon farm
The 300kg Pacific bluefin tuna was rescued by trout farmers off the Hebrides Islands when it appeared in the corral.
Oceanography
Mysterious hundreds of dead sea turtles floating in the Pacific Ocean
It was found that nearly 400 sea turtles floated on the Pacific Ocean. The reason has not been clarified, but there has been a hypothesis given.
Oceanography
Octopus can tear up ... sharks
The giant octopus that lives in the Pacific Ocean is the largest octopus and
Oceanography
Explore the 5 million km2 continent submerged under the Pacific Ocean
The new scientific expedition will focus on drilling deep into the crust or top layer of continental Zealandia about half the size of Australia, Live Science reported ye…
Oceanography
Close-up of blue-spotted octopus has 50 times more venom than cobra
The blue-spotted octopus lives in the coral regions of the Indian and Pacific oceans, which have 50 times the venom of cobra.