Category: Oceans
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Deep-Sea Pressure Squeezes a Hidden Meal Out of Sinking Ocean Particles
Here’s something nobody quite expected: the sheer weight of the ocean itself might be cooking up food for the creatures living in its depths.
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Rock-Dwelling Life Found Thriving at 10,898 Meters in the Deepest Ocean Trenches
Nine thousand meters down, in total darkness and crushing pressure, there’s rock.
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24 New Amphipod Species Found in Pacific Zone Eyed for Deep-Sea Mining
The Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a stretch of the central east Pacific abyss, holds significant abundances of manganese nodules – the kind of mineral deposits that…