In a patch of the Pacific’s abyssal plain, scientists a surprising phenomenon called “dark oxygen production.” ...

MOSS LANDING, CA — Animals living on the abyssal plain, miles below the ocean surface, don't usually get much to eat. Their main source of food is "marine snow"—a slow drift of mucus, fecal pellets, ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 57, No. 2 (2012), pp. 645-664 (20 pages) Carbon flows in the benthic food web of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (4850 m, northeast Atlantic) were reconstructed using ...

The southernmost part of the Sohm Abyssal Plain in the Northwest Atlantic Basin is geographically distal with respect to the major source of Quaternary terrigenous material transported from the ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 4 (2017), pp. 1771-1782 (12 pages) Inputs of detritus from the surface ocean are an important driver of community dynamics in the deep sea. The assessment of ...

The surprising culinary preferences of an abyssal sea anemone have been unveiled by a team of scientists. The surprising culinary preferences of an abyssal sea anemone have been unveiled by a team of ...

Marine biologists have long been puzzled by the fact that marine snow does not supply enough food to support all the animals and microbes living in deep-sea sediments. A new article shows that blooms ...