Space Daily July 18, 2026 • 11:30

Six miles below the Pacific, with no sunlight and no photosynthesis, a Chinese submersible found thousands of blood-red tubeworms and white clams thriving on leaking methane — the deepest animal ecosystem ever discovered on Earth - Space Daily

Six miles below the Pacific, with no sunlight and no photosynthesis, a Chinese submersible found thousands of blood-red tubeworms and white clams thriving on leaking methane — the deepest animal ecosystem ever discovered on Earth - Space Daily

On 30 July 2025, a team from the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper in Nature

On 30 July 2025, a team from the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper in Nature reporting communities of tubeworms and clams livi… [+5881 chars]
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