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 ...

WITH these recently published volumes, the series of Reports on the zoological results of the Challenger Expedition, comes to a close. Volume XXXI. contains three Reports, the first of which is on the ...

THE two new volumes of the Challenger Expedition have appeared, and with them this momentous enterprise has arrived at its final close. It is well worth our while to seize this occasion for a few ...

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 ...

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 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. University of ...

A new NASA and university analysis of ocean data collected more than 135 years ago by the crew of the HMS Challenger oceanographic expedition provides further confirmation that human activities have ...

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 ...