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This is a deep-sea octopus from the genus Cirrothauma, filmed 2,923 m beneath the Ocean’s surface during the Doldrums expedition.

An international science team is studying the Doldrums Megatransform and Fracture Zone, a region where plate movement forms wrinkles and lines along the planet’s surface, known as fault zones. They tell the story of Earth’s tectonic history. These fault zones circulate water into the seafloor and through the crust, later releasing it with new chemical compositions, some of which feed deep-sea bacteria that fuel thriving ecosystems in the deepest, darkest parts of the Ocean. While chemosynthetic ecosystems are well documented along the ridge, little is known about what lives on the fault zones.

power lines are crushed with the weight of four days of accumulated freezing rain in boucherville near montreal, canada, january 9, 1998

Myxini mermaids

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