More than 200 meters beneath the surface of the South Atlantic, where sunlight fades to nothing and water temperatures hover ...
Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...
Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...
A new “hairy” deep-sea coral species has been named after Chewbacca. Researchers were reminded of the Star Wars character after the discovery in the tropical western Pacific. The coral, named ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A new species of deep-sea coral was discovered a team of researchers, including an expert from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Scientists named the species Chewbacca ...