850 kilometers from sunlight

Credit: Reed Scherer (NIU)

Stunned researchers in Antarctica have discovered fish and other aquatic animals living in perpetual darkness and cold, beneath a roof of ice 740 meters thick. The animals inhabit a wedge of seawater only 10 meters deep, sealed between the ice above and a barren, rocky seafloor below—a location so remote and hostile the many scientists expected to find nothing but scant microbial life.

LINK (via: Scientific American)

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[petrus artedi]

most diverse group of vertebrates; where there is water, there are fishes