Chinese team finds ‘garden-like’ ecosystem blooming in deepest ocean trenches

Scientists have discovered a thriving and previously unknown ecosystem in the planet’s deepest ocean trenches, feeding on organic debris from above.
At those depths the pressure is enough to crush a submarine, and combined with perpetual darkness and temperatures near freezing, it makes the deepest reaches of the oceans among the least explored places on Earth.
Until now, researchers believed that only a few anemones, sponges or bacteria could survive under such conditions.
But an international...