A team of researchers documenting the deep sea off the coast of Argentina captured rare footage of a jellyfish “that can grow as long as a school bus,” and said they may have discovered dozens of new species in a recent expedition. According to the Schmidt Ocean Institute, scientists aboard the research vessel Falkor (too) believed they had found 28 new species, including worms, corals, sea urchins, sea snails, and sea anemones as they documented the largest known Bathelia candida coral reef in

32K views · 1.8K reactions | Seemingly unbothered by our presence, this arrowhead dogfish (Deania profundorum) was seen at a depth of 830 meters (2,723 feet) while exploring off the coast of Florida in the Stetson-Miami Terrace Deepwater Coral Habitat of Particular Concern (HAPC) in the Blake Plateau region during the #Okeanos 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration. More video shorts: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/video-shorts/welcome.html | NOAA Ocean Exploration | Facebook

China has marked a leap in deep-sea exploration capabilities with the successful completion of its first manned dive under Arctic ice. Chinese scientists concluded the country's 15th Arctic scientific expedition with the return of the Chinese research icebreaker Xuelong 2 to Shanghai on September 26. With the support of Xuelong 2, mothership Shenhai 1 successfully carried the Jiaolong submersible for its first manned deep dive in the Arctic ice zone. | CGTN