As deep-sea mining interests in the Pacific Ocean grow, scientists have discovered several rare and as yet unnamed aquatic ...

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...

This would map out a baseline for life in the abyssal plain, so that potential harm can ... as a shard of hard surface -- a shark tooth or a fish ear bone -- that settled on the seabed.