The ocean floor among its many secrets also contains many organisms about which marine biologists and researchers are learning something new daily. A group of scientists from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography have found that the microbes rely on a peculiar food source, hydrogen produced from radiolysis of water. The researchers found that the seafloor is …
By contrast, in the middle of the Pacific, there’s surely life, just a lot less of it. “It's the least-explored large biome on Earth, because it covers 70 percent of Earth's surface,” says the University of Rhode Island's Steven D’Hondt, who co-led the expedition and coauthored a new paper in Nature Communications describing the findings. “If you trawl through the …
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