In fact, all our favorite marine animals – sharks and dolphins, turtles and rays, and all those pretty colored fish in our ...

The U.S. Coast Guard medevacked a crew member from the Nekton in Sitka Sound. Prescribed burns in Delta Junction start in ...

The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census, composed of more than 800 scientists from more than 400 institutions, announced that they have discovered 866 new species in the last 16 months. The census ...

Involving more than 800 scientists from more than 400 institutions worldwide, Ocean Census has embarked on ten expeditions and numerous workshops—so far—with a sole aim: discovering new species in the ...

The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census/File Some of the discovered species include a guitar shark, dubbed the "Lost Shark Guy" and was identified by David Ebert off the coast of Mozambique and ...

Scientists have identified 866 new species as part of the Ocean Census, a global mission to protect and accelerate the discovery of marine life. The creatures include everything from a squat lobster ...

The guitar shark is one of the more than 800 new marine species identified. (The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census / Sergey Bogorodsky © 2025) (NewsNation ...

The discoveries were from the efforts of the Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census, the world's largest collaborative of over 800 scientists across 400 institutions to accelerate the discovery of new ...

Over 800 marine species were recently discovered through two years of collaborative efforts in the Ocean Census, founded in April 2023 by the Nippon Foundation and Nekton. A post shared by kendy ...

A new species of Pygmy pipehorse found in Sodwana Bay, South Africa. Image courtesy of The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census/Richard Smith. In Norway’s Jøtul Vent Field, a 35-day expedition ...