The deep-sea world beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss

Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 17:21 in Biology & Nature

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 5000 meters (three miles) below the ocean waves.

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