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Chinese Submersible Reveals Giant Craters Teeming With Life in the Pacific Ocean

Chinese scientists have uncovered a vast and previously unknown hydrothermal field at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, revealing massive craters filled with hydrogen and life. As detailed in a recent ... read more

Giant Chunks of The Seafloor Are Mysteriously Upside Down, Scientists Find

Deep beneath the waves of the North Sea, the seafloor is behaving in an unexpected way. There, scientists have discovered hundreds of vast sand mounds, some on the scale of several kilometers across, ... read more

See the Bizarre Life Forms Scientists Found More Than 31,000 Feet Under the Ocean Surface

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Titanic lies about 12,500 feet under the ocean surface. The pressure down there ... read more

Scientists discover life in the deep seafloor

The ocean is one of Earth's greatest enigmas, as it completely overpowers our planet, covering much more area than land, and yet we seem to know less about it than Mars, a planet that is millions of ... read more

The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable

A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive in Earth’s crust, possibly for hundreds or thousands of years, and push ... read more

Why mapping the entire seafloor is a daunting task, but key to improving human life

Scientists have mapped less than 30% of the world's seafloor. Experts say that getting that number up to 100% would improve everything from tsunami warnings to the Internet and renewable energy. read more