NOAA Ocean Exploration is making annotations of biological occurrence data (observations and samples) from expeditions on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer available in global databases for the first time.

“Headless chicken monster” is a common name for deep ocean sea cucumbers in the genus Enypniastes. Their flowing movements have also earned them the more elegant nickname “Spanish dancers.” The ocean ...

Geological, biological, and water samples collected via tools such as remotely operated and autonomous underwater vehicles and box cores and made publicly available for further analyses In situ ...

The deepest confirmed fish sighting is of a snailfish filmed at a depth of 8,336 meters (27,000 feet) below the ocean surface. Other fish may live at similar depths, but it’s likely that no fish lives ...

The stories that emerge from material culture left behind by our predecessors span time and geography. Dugout canoes built from single trees and excavated out of river banks tell the stories of ...

Covering 6.4 million acres, an area larger than Vermont, an underwater seascape of cold-water coral mounds offshore the southeast United States coast has been deemed the largest deep-sea coral reef ...

Ocean exploration is vital for mapping and characterizing geologic features and biologic communities in the ocean, some of which have not been previously described. However, the impacts of ocean ...

Oxygen minimum zones are persistent layers in the water column that have low oxygen concentration due to biological, chemical, and physical processes. As oceans warm, oxygen minimum zones increase in ...

Cold seeps are relatively stable, long-lived places in the ocean where hydrocarbon-rich fluid that is of a similar temperature to surrounding water seeps up from cracks in the seafloor while ...

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 ...

As the greatest migration on Earth, the daily vertical movement of zooplankton in the ocean has a massive influence on sea life and the global climate. Every day, billions and billions of animals, ...