Far off the coast of Argentina, in the silent blue vastness of the Southwest Atlantic, a team of marine biologists set out on a mission of discovery. Aboard the research vessel RRS Discovery, scientists from the University of Southampton, the British Antarctic Survey, and other institutions sent robotic submersibles plunging more than 4,000 meters below the surface — into canyons where sunlight has never touched. What they found was nothing short of extraordinary. Over forty new deep-sea species

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