The eight videographers moved stealthily along the ocean floor, capturing footage of previously unmapped underwater habitats as they navigated confidently through the hazy waters, almost like they ...

Scientists attach video cameras to sea lions to map the ocean floor. August 9, 2024 3:00 AM ET. By . Regina G. Barber , Berly McCoy , Ailsa Chang , Hannah Chinn , Kai McNamee ...

Move Over, Robots: Sea Lions With Cameras Can Map the Ocean Floor Daphne, Phoebe, Iris and Pasithea demonstrated how marine mammals can help scientists understand mysterious places that humans may ...

Move over, robots: Sea lions with cameras can map the ocean floor . Aug. 11, 2024 at 3:00 pm Updated Aug. 11, ... the videos provided the researchers with a rare perspective of the ocean floor.

By attaching video cameras to sea lions' backs, researchers are not only learning about hyper-valuable endangered species habitat, but also expanding on their ability to map the ocean floor.

Australian sea lions wearing video cameras showed scientists a whole new world on the ocean floor. The footage revealed surprisingly diverse habitats like sponge gardens, coral reefs, and kelp reefs.

One of the critters the robotic explorer captured on camera was a polychaete, a type of deep-sea worm. In the clip of the creature the Schmidt Ocean Institute shared on social media, the ...

In the 1960s, the U.S. Navy was exploring the other "final frontier" -- the sea. A series of underwater habitats called "Sealabs" were constructed for scientific exploration on the ocean floor.

Around much of the planet, an aquatic mystery leaves scientists in the dark. “For most of the ocean, we don’t know what the bottom looks like,” said Nathan Angelakis, a doctoral student at ...

How do you study unmapped areas of the ocean and identify critical habitat for an endangered species? You include the study animal in the... Scientists attach video cameras to sea lions to map the ...

When the sea lions returned to land between two and 10 days later to nurse their pups, the researchers got their cameras back — with 89 usable hours of daytime footage, captured at a depth of ...