A logbook from the famous 1872-1876 journey of HMS Challenger, described at the time as "the greatest advance in the knowledge of our planet since the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries" will go under ...

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Specimen jar from the HMS Challenger expedition. The dried and cleaned sediment inside is made up of hundreds of thousands of microfossils. The Museum’s ocean bottom deposit collection consists of ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — 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 ...