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Researchers survey Mid-Atlantic ridge looking for new life forms, clues to deep-sea communities

Researchers Survey Mid-Atlantic Ridge Looking For New Forms of Marine Life, Clues to Deep-Sea Communities

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to ...





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Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss

Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Census of Marine Life 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 ...


Persistent man-made chemical pollutants found in deep-sea octopods and squids

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 09, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

New evidence that chemical contaminants are finding their way into the deep-sea food web has been found in deep-sea squids and octopods, including the strange-looking "vampire squid". These species are food for deep-diving ...



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