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A new squat lobster, Galathea tukitukimea, is described from seamounts near Rapa Nui, representing the first record of the genus in this region and Chilean territory. The species consistently associates with a sea urchin, suggesting rare mimicry-based behaviour.

The SSI Southern Ocean Species Discovery Workshop will bring an international team of taxonomists to Chile to analyse samples from two Ocean Census expeditions to Antarctica and the South Sandwich Islands

Luisa F. Dueñas, a member of the Ocean Census Science Network and Associate Professor in the Biology Department at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, will be representing our network on the upcoming Marshall Islands deep-sea expedition aboard Ocean Exploration Trust's E/V Nautilus.

A new species of soapfish, Rypticus, is described from 14 specimens in the eastern Atlantic. Previously misidentified as R. saponaceus, it differs morphologically and is strongly supported as a distinct species by mitochondrial DNA analysis.

From discovering ancient Megalodon teeth on the seafloor, to watching hydrothermal vents bloom into view in one of Earth’s most remote regions, Dr. Michelle Taylor has spent her life on the edge of the unknown.

En este reportaje, hablamos con algunos de sus estudiantes sobre su investigación en esponjas, organismos a menudo ignorados pero fundamentales para los ecosistemas marinos.

In this feature, we spoke with some of Báslavi Cóndor Luján's students to learn more about their work exploring sponges, one of the ocean’s most overlooked but ecologically vital organisms.

At a glance, marine sediment might seem lifeless, just mud beneath the waves. But for James Fleming, postdoctoral researcher at JAMSTEC, that mud holds entire worlds.

Rising from the deep seafloor south of mainland Japan, the Shichiyo Seamounts, a dive site of the JAMSTEC Shinkai expedition, are part of a chain of underwater volcanoes formed by tectonic activity along the Izu–Ogasawara Arc.