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