Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)

Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 13:42 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.

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