Amazingly, life thrives at Earth's deepest spot

Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 15:00 in Earth & Climate

Life finds a way, even in the total darkness near the deepest known part of the ocean, according to new research. Scientists have discovered fields of bone-white clams clustering near hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific Ocean that lie as deep as 19,230 feet below the surface, near the Mariana Trench

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