Every few days, the crew of the Challenger would dredge the ocean floor for sediment and specimens. Courtesy of The Trustees of the Natural History Museum. The H.M.S. Challenger spent just over three ...
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 ...
When was the first voyage of the Challenger? No, not the Space Shuttle — the original Challenger, a sea ship that sailed in 1872. The HMS Challenger traversed the world’s oceans for four years, drove ...
The hms Challenger embarked in the 1870s to survey the world’s oceans. The data the expedition collected is still being used ...
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 ...
THE description of the Polyzoa collected during the expedition of the Challenger was undertaken by Mr. Busk, and the first part of his Report, comprising the Cheilostomatous forms, or those in which ...