Tag: ocean
Discovery of a large hydrothermal field at the bottom of the ocean
The study of the ocean floor always brings its share of new discoveries. A new hydrothermal field located in the Pacific Ocean, 2.5 kilometers deep, and showing particularly intense activity…
It smokes a lot at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean!
The study of the ocean floor always brings its share of new discoveries. A new hydrothermal field located in the Pacific Ocean, 2.5 kilometers deep, and showing particularly intense activity…
The mysterious world of jellyfish
Jellyfish live in all the oceans and seas of the world, from the surface to the bottom, including in the abyss! Some species live in mangroves and salt lakes, others…
A shark embryo dumped in the ocean
While diving deep in the Caribbean, researchers made a rare sighting. They filmed a shark embryo and its egg, attached to corals. For 22 days in 2018, researchers from the…
Starfish: unsuspected predators
Equipped with several arms and a central disc, the stars of sea intrigue. Sometimes from a color sparkling, sometimes dull, they nest more or less deeply in the depths of…
China’s Long March rocket finally disintegrated over the Indian Ocean
Its return to earth could have gone wrong, but ultimately the segment of the Chinese space rocket launched last Sunday to complete the country’s new space station disintegrated over the…
Chinese rocket crashed over the Indian Ocean
Published: Less than 40 min ago full screen Parts of a Chinese space rocket that was launched on Sunday have fallen back to earth. Archive image. Photo: Li Gang/AP/TT Parts…
A strange creature surprised at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean
This sea cucumber, a Peniagon vitrea, is one of the oldest known species inhabiting the ocean floor. It was discovered in 1870 and recently observed by a team of researchers.…
These footprints aligned at the bottom of the ocean intrigue scientists
While exploring around the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the depth of the ocean exceeds one kilometer, researchers came across an amazing phenomenon: a series of holes dug at regular intervals in…
Blue biotechnology: what is it?
With green biotechnologies, red biotechnology and the white biotechnologiesthem blue biotechnologies (also called marine biotechnologies) constitute a particular category of biotechnologies. They use marine resources (essentially algae and micro-algae) as…