The HMS Challenger collected massive amounts of data about the world’s oceans during its 19th-century voyage and laid the foundation for the fields of oceanography and marine biology. University of ...
The HMS Challenger began a four-year voyage 150 years ago to explore the deep sea and the creatures that lived in it. The scientists aboard the ship discovered thousands of new species and recorded ...
Medusa plates, ‘Challenger Reports, vol. 4’ (1882), Royal Society Edinburgh Archive (all images from ‘Art Forms from the Abyss: Ernst Haeckel’s Images From The HMS Challenger Expedition,’ courtesy ...
Threshold of the deep -- The desert under the sea -- The restless earth -- Kingdoms of mud and lime -- Climate triggers and Bermudan secrets -- Kelp and cold light -- The library of time -- The grim ...
ON 21 DECEMBER 1872, the converted warship HMS Challenger embarked from Portsmouth, England, on the first ever global scientific survey of the seas. Researchers from the Royal Society of London ...
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