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Deepest Arctic vent ever found is packed with life, scientists say

Far below the ice and storms of the high north, scientists have pinpointed the deepest known Arctic vent system and found it bursting with organisms that should not, by any intuitive measure, be able ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Researchers Retrieve the Deepest-Ever Rock Core From Beneath Antarctica’s Ice. It Holds Clues About the Earth’s Past—and Future

The 748-foot-long sediment core contains a record of roughly the past 23 million years, including periods when the planet's surface temperature was hotter than it is today ...
Forbes

Meet The Rare ‘Ghost’ Of The Deep Sea. Hint: It’s Only Ever Been Seen Alive Once

Meet the “ghost fish,” a phantom of the abyss. Here’s how we found the first ever proof of its existence just a few years ago. The deep sea is a part of the world that very few humans get the chance ...