The discovery of the deepest fish in a Japanese trench raises the question, what else is out there? But before the mind leaps to all things dark and spooky, take a fresh look at life in the deep sea.
- Founding Professor of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research centre, The University of Western Australia
The idea we know more about the Moon than the deep sea is seductive – but it’s 70 years out of date.
These ‘snailfish’ look too fragile to exist several miles below the waves.
But should we care if the extreme marine frontier is not clean?
From time-shifting earthquakes to bizarre creatures, the crushing depths of the hadal zone are another world.
It was our 14th expedition to the trenches of the Pacific Ocean, where depths can exceed 10,000m. And it was due to be our last for the foreseeable future. We had been aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s…
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