Ping-pong sponges, ‘black smokers’ and floating somethings : the secrets of the deep sea

The bottom of the ocean has barely been explored, but every journey to the deep reveals wondrous new lifeforms. As underwater mining gains momentum, we risk destroying one of the Earth’s last great wildernesses On 8 March 2014, at 1.20am, Malaysian Airlines flight 370 veered off its scheduled (…)