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#deepsea

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

‘Supergiant’ #sea creature lurks in more than half the #ocean
An animal the size of your forearm may not, at first, appear to deserve the “supergiant” label, but according to #deepsea researcher and lead author of the study, Dr Paige Maroni, they’re “ginormous” compared to other #amphipods. First discovered in the 1800s, but considered relatively rare, could inhabit up to 59% of the world’s deep #oceans according to a new study from the University of Western Australia.
cosmosmagazine.com/nature/mari

A photograph taken in the deep ocean showing pale white prawn-like crustaceans congregating around bait
Cosmos · ‘Supergiant’ sea creature lurks in more than half the oceanA “supergiant” deep sea amphipod first discovered in the 1800s, but considered relatively rare, could inhabit up to 59% of the world’s deep oceans.
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

How #DeepSea Cables That Power World Are Made
#Undersea routes are often preferred option for sharing #electricity between countries or simply keeping cables out of sight
“We are basically sold out through 2028,” Massimo Battaini, CEO of #Prysmian, said in an interview at the plant. He added that orders on the books for these conduits, which can carry up to two gigawatts of power, have jumped to around €17 billion from €2 billion five years ago
nytimes.com/2025/07/14/busines
archive.ph/hzLDc

The New York Times · How the Deep Sea Cables That Power the World Are MadeBy Stanley Reed
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Sea spiders found farming methane-eating #microbes in cultivated biofilm phys.org/news/2025-06-sea-spid

Diverse, epibiotic #methanotrophs serve as a source of nutrition for #DeepSea methane seep Sericosura. By Bianca Dal Bó et al. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501

"#MethaneSeeps are areas of the seafloor where #methane forms flourishing ecosystems... 3 species of #SeaSpiders were discovered to host dense layers of CH4-consuming microbes on their exoskeletons... and graze upon them with specialized mouthparts"

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Want to Be a #DeepSea Explorer? Don’t Worry, There’s Lots Left.
Humans have visually documented about 1,470 square miles, or a mere 0.001 percent, of the deep #seafloor, according to a new study. That’s a little larger than the size of Rhode Island.
Researchers collected more than 43,000 records of dives and assessed the photos and videos to determine how much of the bottom has been seen by humans.
nytimes.com/2025/05/07/climate
archive.is/20250507183754/http
#Ocean #Sea

The New York Times · Want to Be a Deep Sea Explorer? Don’t Worry, There’s Lots Left.By Rebecca Dzombak
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

New bacterial genome announcement from our team:

Draft genome sequence of Desulfobacterota strain M19, a mesophilic sulfur-disproportionating bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/m

This new bacterium was found on a #DeepSea hydrothermal vent, 1663m deep under the Atlantic ocean surface. It can grow by both "eating" and "breathing" a single chemical—pure elemental sulfur.

#Bacteria#Microbes#Genomics
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