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.