US EditionResearchers Dive Over 30,000 Feet Into Ocean Trench and Film Life
NORTHWEST PACIFIC OCEAN, JUL 30 – Researchers found entire animal communities living off chemical energy at depths exceeding 31,000 feet in Pacific Ocean trenches, the deepest chemosynthetic ecosystems recorded, scientists said.
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See the bizarre life forms scientists discovered more than 30,000 feet under the Pacific Ocean
Images and video show deep-sea animals researchers on a submersible in the Pacific Ocean recently encountered. The ecosystem depends on energy derived from chemical reactions.
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‘Thriving’ ecosystem found 30,000 feet undersea
What happened A Chinese-led team of researchers exploring 9.5 kilometers (31,000 feet) below sea level in the northwest Pacific Ocean discovered “thriving communities” of tubeworms, mollusks and other creatures living in some of the ocean’s deepest trenches, as reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. Traveling in a submersible called Fendouzhe for hours at a time, the international team covered 1,500 miles of the little-explored Kuril–Kamchatk…
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