🚨 YouTube Premier: Dive with us to the hidden world of a sunken WWII Canadian warship. Joining us will be French Archeologist, Jacques Ouchakoff and OceanX expedition leader, Mark Ward as we explore the HMCS Athabaskan. Today 12pm ET/9am PT bit.ly/HMCSAthabaskan

OceanXplorer is mapping a shipwreck from the Second World War, HMCS Athabaskan, with our ROV. We'll map the wreck in high resolution and attempt to find the ship's missing aft section. Watch the dive here, bit.ly/HMCSAthabaskan Aug 24 at 12 pm ET/9 am PT.
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Of the almost 250,000 known marine species, scientists think all fully-aquatic marine mammals emit sounds, as well as at least 100 invertebrates and 1,000 fish species.

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Discovered in Egypt, the previously unknown species is the tiniest cetacean ever found. It's estimated to have been only 8 feet long and weighing 400 pounds.

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Cruising slowly, the whale shark takes in water and filters it for plankton and krill; WasteShark, meanwhile, filters urban waters for trash.

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A new study says 500,000 metric tons of plastic reaches the ocean each year. An earlier model estimated 8 million metric tons. However, the study also shows that the amount of plastic in the ocean increases by about 4 percent every year.
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One of the eight whales they tagged dove down 9,816 feet (2,992 meters), equivalent to about 32 times the height of the Statue of Liberty. What's more, the whales could dive for a long time — one stayed underwater for more than 2 hours.

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Scientists overturned volcanic crust on the seafloor and discovered worms, snails, and bacteria thriving in cave systems beneath hydrothermal vents.
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While it's likely not the longest animal that ever lived, it may be the heaviest. A single vertebra weighs over 220 lbs. Researchers think this colossal whale might have lived in shallow coastal waters.

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We just spotted this pod of whales off the coast of Norway.

We think they were fin whales, but we are still going through the footage to be sure of the identification. What kind of whales do you think they are?

📷 : Adam Wolffbrandt
🔊 : Matthew Modula

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... an #eagleray ?

These #rays cast an impressive Batman-like silhouette with a wingspan up to 3 meters (10 feet) wide! For any above water fans that came across our 'eagle' post, that's equivalent to a California condor gliding through the water!

'When an immortal jellyfish grows old or damaged, the species can evade death by reverting to a baby polyp stage. It does so by reabsorbing its tentacles and coming to rest as a blob of undifferentiated cells somewhere on the seafloor.'

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'The frozen fruit was the product of a particularly tasty scientific experiment. By offering a way to freeze samples at depth, such a device could improve scientists’ ability to study deep-sea life.'

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