06/03/2026
An expedition to international waters off the coast of Brazil used state-of-the-art to confirm new midwater species and observed the living 3D cellular structure of a microbe—a first for .
An international team of midwater experts on board Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) discovered over two dozen new on a recent expedition off the coast of Brazil in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean. The scientists used advanced technologies to explore the ocean’s midwater—the water between the sunlit layer and the seafloor—which is Earth’s largest and least explored habitable ecosystem.