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Topic: Discoveries

In 2016, a team exploring via NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer encountered this sponge, reminiscent of the space alien from the movie, "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial." The team collected a sample of the sponge that scientists from NOAA Fisheries and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History later analyzed and determined to be a new genus and species, which they have named Advhena magnifica, Latin for “magnificent alien.”

'Magnificent' new sponge from the deep gets a name

July 9, 2020

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Okeanos Explorer

In 2016, a team exploring via NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer encountered this sponge, reminiscent of the space alien from the movie, "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial." The team collected a sample of the sponge that scientists from NOAA Fisheries and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History later analyzed and determined to be a new genus and species, which they have named Advhena magnifica, Latin for “magnificent alien.”

This microscope image of a newly discovered species of diatom -- or micro-algae -- is named for NOAA scientist Dr. Joan Browder.

New species of algae named after NOAA scientist

March 26, 2020

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This microscope image of a newly discovered species of diatom -- or micro-algae -- is named for NOAA scientist Dr. Joan Browder.

International scientists encountered unique pod of orcas similar to the unidentified animals seen in this 2011 photograph.

NOAA and partners capture footage of what might be new species of killer whale

March 7, 2019

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International scientists encountered unique pod of orcas similar to the unidentified animals seen in this 2011 photograph.

On July 17, a NOAA-funded team of Project Recover scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the University of Delaware discovered the missing 75- foot stern section of the destroyer USS Abner Read in 290 feet of water off of Kiska, Alaska. The stern sank Aug 18, 1943, at the height of World War II after being blown off by a Japanese mine. Pictured, research vessel Norseman II in transit through the Aleutian Islands, a chain of volcanic islands that

Stern of World War II U.S. destroyer discovered off remote Alaskan island by NOAA-supported scientists

August 15, 2018

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On July 17, a NOAA-funded team of Project Recover scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the University of Delaware discovered the missing 75- foot stern section of the destroyer USS Abner Read in 290 feet of water off of Kiska, Alaska. The stern sank Aug 18, 1943, at the height of World War II after being blown off by a Japanese mine. Pictured, research vessel Norseman II in transit through the Aleutian Islands, a chain of volcanic islands that

This ghost-like octopod is almost certainly an undescribed species and may not belong to any described genus. Image courtesy of NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.

Octopod shows how little we know of life on earth

March 14, 2016

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This ghost-like octopod is almost certainly an undescribed species and may not belong to any described genus. Image courtesy of NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.

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