A set of mysterious 'hoofprints' on the seafloor off the coast of New Zealand are not actually the work of a mythic underwater horse trotting through the abyss.
NIWA scientists have discovered the origins of cryptic markings found in Aotearoa New Zealand’s deep sea. While studying footage from a 2013 Chatham Rise survey, researchers kept seeing horseshoe-shaped imprints in the seabed but had no idea what .