Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss
Monday, November 23, 2009 - 16:35
in Biology & Nature
Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world down to 5,000 meters (~3 miles) below the ocean waves.