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The creature was found at a depth of 161 metres

Japanese researchers film rare baby fish 'fossil'

Nov 17, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (7) | 4

Japanese marine researchers said Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth -- a rare type of fish known as "a living fossil" -- in deep water off Indonesia.

Scientists finding sink holes in Great Lakes

Biology / Ecology

May 04, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (15) | 2

Scientists studying submerged sinkholes in the Great Lakes off the coast of northern Michigan have stumbled onto something they never expected to find: life forms akin to those found in some of Earth's most extreme environments.

The fault line where this happened runs parallel to Sumatra and is called the Sunda Trench

New Sumatra quake takes seismologists by surprise

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Oct 01, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 1

The huge earthquake that hit Sumatra occurred at a deep, unexpected location, illustrating the dangerously complex geological mosaic in this area, a seismologist told AFP on Thursday.

Iceberg Scour Affects Biodiversity

Space & Earth / Environment

Jul 17, 2008 | 3.3 / 5 (9) | 2

Antarctic worms, sea spiders, urchins and other marine creatures living in near-shore shallow habitats are regularly pounded by icebergs. New data suggests this environment along the Antarctic Peninsula is ...

A deep-sea drilling vessel off the coast of Japan's Wakayama prefecture

Japan to use deep-sea probes to search for minerals

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Aug 06, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

Japan plans to deploy unmanned probes to scour the sea-floor around the resource-poor island nation for mineral deposits, a government-backed scientific organisation said Thursday.

Study predicts seabed response to climate change

Study predicts Australian seabed response to climate change

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Oct 15, 2009 | 1 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO scientists have produced the first preliminary predictions of the potential impact of climate change on the Australian seabed.

Geoscientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute back from an expedition to Labrador Sea

Geoscientists back from expedition to Labrador Sea

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jul 22, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have researched the geology of the seabed in the Labrador Sea on board of the research vessel Maria S. Merian. They have studied the so-called Eirik Drift at the ...