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Pacific deep-sea mining interests reveal rare species, and a scramble to name them
As deep-sea mining interests in the Pacific Ocean grow, scientists have discovered several rare and as yet unnamed aquatic ...
Race to name creatures of the deep as mining interest grows
In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...
Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier
Born on July 30, 1920, geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean – not a featureless flat, but rugged and varied terrain.
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Race to name creatures of the deep as mining interest grows
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.