{"id":133766,"date":"2025-07-31T11:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133766"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:13:27","slug":"extreme-limits-china-led-mission-discovers-earths-deepest-animal-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133766","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Extreme limits\u2019: China-led mission discovers Earth\u2019s deepest animal oasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn the crushing darkness of the northwest Pacific Ocean, a China-led deep-sea expedition has pulled back the curtain on the deepest life habitat ever known to exist: thriving colonies of tubeworms and molluscs.<br \/>\nThe improbable hidden oasis of life \u2013 in numbing waters up to 9,500 metres (31,167 feet) deep \u2013 synthesises energy by feasting on chemicals such as hydrogen sulphide and methane that seep out of faults in the tectonic plate.<br \/>\nThe remarkable creatures have bypassed the need for sunlight&#8230;.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3320314\/extreme-limits-china-led-mission-finds-thriving-oasis-earths-deepest-reaches?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn the crushing darkness of the northwest Pacific Ocean, a China-led deep-sea expedition has pulled back the curtain on the deepest life habitat ever&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133766"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}