Situated in the enormous Pacific Ocean, the Challenger Deep is the lowest point on our planet. Found along the Mariana Trench, this natural phenomenon is an example of the astoundingly deep and ...

The HMS Challenger collected massive amounts of data about the world’s oceans during its 19th-century voyage and laid the foundation for the fields of oceanography and marine biology.

As a result, the foraminifera collection - with approximately 250,000 slides - is the most extensive of our micropalaeontological collections. The HMS Challenger expedition (1872-1876) collected vast ...