Deep below the waves, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s groundbreaking underwater technology has unveiled a new snailfish species. In 2019, MBARI researchers spotted an unfamiliar pink ...

This year marks the opening of the United Nations Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences, an international initiative focused on the rapid changes occurring in glaciers, snow cover, ice sheets, sea ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can’t reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...

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Researchers collected detailed observations about the seldom-spotted sea critter during the rare encounter on Nov. 6 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute/YouTube A seven-arm octopus was spotted in ...

MBARI researchers have developed an innovative imaging system that can be deployed at great depths underwater to study the movement of marine life. The team used the system to study deep-sea octopus ...

President Obama announced last week his intent to nominate Marcia McNutt, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz and president and CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research ...

Scientists on California’s Central Coast recently spotted a giant, evasive seven-arm octopus while on a research expedition in Monterey Bay. The rare creature, called Haliphron atlanticus, was seen by ...