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Scientists are baffled after discovering thousands of creatures thriving nearly 6 MILES underwater in the deepest part of the ocean
Daily Mail ^ | 7/31/25 | Shivali Best

Posted on 07/31/2025 9:32:24 AM PDT by week 71

Scientists diving to astounding depths in two oceanic trenches in the northwest Pacific have discovered thriving communities of marine creatures.

Amazingly, these trenches lie at depths greater than the height of Mount Everest, Earth's tallest peak.

The deepest one reaches 9,533 metres (31,276 feet) below the ocean surface in the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench.

This is almost 25 per cent deeper than such animals had previously been documented anywhere.

While most animals get their sustenance by eating organic matter, the researchers were surprised to discover that these creatures get their energy from chemicals.

This is a process known as chemosynthesis.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: cryptobiology; godsgravesglyphs; ventlife

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1 posted on 07/31/2025 9:32:24 AM PDT by week 71
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To: week 71

Remember- these are the same people who say if we don’t starve ourselves, freeze ourselves in the winter (turn down the heat) and suffer heatstroke in the summer (no air conditioning) the planted will cease to exists in 5.7543 years...


2 posted on 07/31/2025 9:34:22 AM PDT by God luvs America
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To: week 71

But they know what the temperature of the earth should. Thank goodness they weren’t baffled.


3 posted on 07/31/2025 9:35:14 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: week 71

democrats, right?


4 posted on 07/31/2025 9:36:19 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: week 71

Kamchatka has had about 4 million earthquakes.


5 posted on 07/31/2025 9:37:05 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: week 71
While most animals get their sustenance by eating organic matter, the researchers were surprised to discover that these creatures get their energy from chemicals.

Organic matter is chemicals.

6 posted on 07/31/2025 9:37:45 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: week 71

Back in the 1960s it was being said that we knew more about the Moon than about our own oceans.

I’m sure it’s still true.


7 posted on 07/31/2025 9:38:00 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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8 posted on 07/31/2025 9:38:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: week 71

Cools!

Isn’t this where earthquake was?


9 posted on 07/31/2025 9:38:55 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege ( )
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To: week 71

This is like 30 years of saying scientists are “baffled” by life in deep water. It’s not baffling. This has been known forever.


10 posted on 07/31/2025 9:40:54 AM PDT by montag813
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To: week 71

Microbugs eating hydrocarbons


11 posted on 07/31/2025 9:42:51 AM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
These colonies of critters were found first at the Mid-Atlantic ridge, a few years later at ocean vents in the Pacific, and this is really, really not a new discovery.

12 posted on 07/31/2025 10:02:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: week 71

At 30,000 feet deep in the ocean temps are about 39F and pressure is about 8 tons per square inch.

If life can survive such conditions it certainly makes it possible that some sort of life might survive elsewhere in this solar system.


13 posted on 07/31/2025 10:07:51 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: week 71

You think you live under pressure…


14 posted on 07/31/2025 10:10:35 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: week 71

This is not new news - many years old discoveries.


15 posted on 07/31/2025 10:22:14 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: NorthMountain

Chemicals,the stuff of life.🤔


16 posted on 07/31/2025 11:28:13 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: crusty old prospector
You think you live under pressure…

I was listening to ZZ Top's "Got Me Under Pressure" as I read this.

17 posted on 07/31/2025 11:36:55 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Well, she likes wearing lipstick.


18 posted on 07/31/2025 11:43:44 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: IYAS9YAS

I thought someone might come back with Queen and David Bowie.


19 posted on 07/31/2025 12:48:56 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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