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Animals thrive without oxygen at sea bottom

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Creatures found where only microbes and viruses were thought to survive.

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Department of Marine Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche

Italian Association of Limnology and Oceanography

Lisa Levin

Angelika Brandt

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Fang, J. Animals thrive without oxygen at sea bottom. Nature 464, 825 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/464825b

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