Today, however, we can visit, study, and exploit the deep ocean; astonishing images of the weird and wonderful ecosystems are transmitted into our living rooms through documentaries and in popular ...

Pitch darkness, poison gas, heavy metals, extreme acidity, enormous pressure, water at turns frigid and searing—this seafloor environment ... have eaten or otherwise made use of the microbes ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? Some scientists think so, but others have challenged the claim that so-called "dark ...