An instrument or device used to observe and study organisms living on the ocean or lake floor.
From Greek benthos 'sea bottom' + -scope 'instrument for viewing.' This term emerged in the 20th century alongside other submarine observation technologies.
Early benthoscopes were remarkably simple—sometimes just a glass-bottomed box lowered on a rope—but they opened windows to alien worlds that had never been seen by humans before!
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