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A dead whale sinking to the ocean floor creates a unique deep-sea ecosystem.: this whale fall provides food for scavengers, then enriches sediments for other creatures. Finally, bacteria in bones ...
The deep sea, the planet’s most expansive and least understood ecosystem, remains largely unexplored. Yet while the deep sea may seem a dark and distant space, events underwater directly impact our ...
The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...
The bumpy snailfish, discovered 10,000 feet down off the coast of California, shows that not all denizens of the abyss are frightening. By Alexa Robles-Gil For an animal, surviving in the ocean’s ...
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