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Satellite data reveal nearly 20,000 previously unknown deep-sea mountains

The number of known mountains in Earth’s oceans has roughly doubled. Global satellite observations have revealed nearly 20,000 previously unknown seamounts, researchers report in the April Earth and Space Science. Just as mountains tower…
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A ‘fire wolf’ fish could expand what we know about one unusual deep-sea ecosystem

Off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica sits a deep-sea chimera of an ecosystem. Jacó Scar is a methane seep, where the gas escapes from sediment into the seawater, but the seep isn’t cold like the others found before it. Instead, geochemical…
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New microscopic organisms found in deep sea trench baffle Chile scientists

When Chilean scientist Osvaldo Ulloa led an expedition 8,000 meters under the sea to an area where no human had ever been, his team discovered microscopic organisms that generated more questions than answers. The January submarine…
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Electricity bacteria, planet-eating stars and deep-sea mining disasters

A study revealed that at the bottom of the sea, tiny bacteria exhale electricity by exhaling through what looks like a snorkeling tube that is long and thin, and a new study shows that a quarter of sun-like stars devour their planets, and…
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