Life in the Deep Sea

The deep sea is one of the few remaining under-explored regions of the world, explains Steven Haddock of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The little we already know tells us that:

• our ideas of life in these waters are mostly misconceptions
• climate change is troublesome for sea creatures who live within a specific temperature range
• space biology (exobiology) can learn from the marine organisms that don’t need light or oxygen to survive
• different species adapted to deep sea life in unique ways over time

Read the interview with Steven Haddock, Discovering Amazing Life in the Deep Sea: http://actionbioscience.org/biodiversity/haddock.html