Tag: deep sea
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How Forests Kicked Off Life in the Deep Sea: A Deep-Time Evolution Tale
From Forest Floors to Ocean Depths: A Connected Timeline Long before oceans teemed with fish and corals, forests on land were already shaping the destiny of life on Earth. Recent findings show that vegetation and the oxygen it produced played a pivotal role in turning the deep sea from an oxygen-starved void into a thriving…
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Forests on Land Sparked Deep-Sea Life Worldwide
When forests reshaped the oceans About 400 million years ago, Earth’s land was beginning to resemble a green canopy of complex forests. For the oceans, this terrestrial transformation mattered profoundly. A new wave of research suggests that as forests expanded and thrived on land, they pumped more oxygen into the atmosphere. That oxygen didn’t stay…
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Sea Spider advances China’s underwater neutrino telescope
Overview: a landmark sea trial for neutrino science Chinese researchers have reached an important milestone in the search for neutrinos, the ghostly subatomic particles that stream through us and the Earth in vast numbers every second. A specialized deployment system nicknamed the Sea Spider, short for Subsea Precision Instrument Deployer with Elastic Releasing, underwent a…