Articles for tag: DeepSea, ExtremeEnvironments, OceanExploration, UnderwaterDiscovery

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The Ocean’s Deepest Trenches Hold Creatures Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen

Suhail Ahmed

  Several miles beneath the sunlit waves, in a place where bones should crack and metal should crumple, life is quietly rewriting the rules of biology. Over the last decade, deep-diving robots and pressure-proof landers have slipped into the black pits of the Mariana, Kermadec, Japan, and Izu–Ogasawara trenches, returning with images and specimens that ...