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 ...
For centuries, explorers have journeyed to the far reaches of the human world. Centuries ago, explorers sailed upon the ocean and discovered lands unknown to them. New generations of pioneers charted ...
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 ...
Foundations Maiden Voyage, 1872–1876 The Challenger expedition's data on ocean temperatures and currents, seawater chemistry, life in the deep sea, and the geology of the seafloor spurred the rise of ...
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