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Life, 5 kilometers beneath the ocean
Scientists recently sent robotic submersibles down to the deepest hydrothermal vent ever studied, a warm oasis in the cold, dark depths of the ocean. Here’s a few photos of what they found there, pale white, blind and uniquely adapted to a life without light.
Another reminder that everywhere we look for life on Earth, we find it.
Check out more at io9.
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Life, 5 kilometers beneath the ocean
Scientists recently sent robotic submersibles down to the deepest hydrothermal vent ever studied, a warm oasis in the cold, dark depths of the ocean. Here’s a few photos of what they found there, pale white, blind and uniquely adapted to a life without light.
Another reminder that everywhere we look for life on Earth, we find it.
Check out more at io9.
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Life, 5 kilometers beneath the ocean
Scientists recently sent robotic submersibles down to the deepest hydrothermal vent ever studied, a warm oasis in the cold, dark depths of the ocean. Here’s a few photos of what they found there, pale white, blind and uniquely adapted to a life without light.
Another reminder that everywhere we look for life on Earth, we find it.
Check out more at io9.
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Life, 5 kilometers beneath the ocean

Scientists recently sent robotic submersibles down to the deepest hydrothermal vent ever studied, a warm oasis in the cold, dark depths of the ocean. Here’s a few photos of what they found there, pale white, blind and uniquely adapted to a life without light.

Another reminder that everywhere we look for life on Earth, we find it.

Check out more at io9.

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