Denizens of the Deep
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Deep space may be the final frontier, but we already know more about the orbits of starsaround the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way then we do about thebehavior of the colossal squid and other creatures that live deep in the oceans here at home.In fact, water deeper than a kilometer covers more than 60% of the planet, which means weknow very little about the most common environment on Earth. There, creatures odd and tasty havelearned to survive in constant darkness, near-freezing cold, and extreme pressure, all of which meanthere's very little available oxygen, food, or companionship.Surviving in this environment requires some extraordinary adjustments. One-thousand metersdown, the pressure is over 100 times what we experience at the surface,...
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Deep space may be the final frontier, but we already know more about the orbits of starsaround the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way then we do about thebehavior of the colossal squid and other creatures that live deep in the oceans here at home.In fact, water deeper than a kilometer covers more than 60% of the planet, which means weknow very little about the most common environment on Earth. There, creatures odd and tasty havelearned to survive in constant darkness, near-freezing cold, and extreme pressure, all of which meanthere's very little available oxygen, food, or companionship.Surviving in this environment requires some extraordinary adjustments. One-thousand metersdown, the pressure is over 100 times what we experience at the surface,...
