Tag: abyss
The “war of the abyss” or the threat of Russia to cut off the Internet in Europe
The war in Ukraine has raised the specter of an attack on the Internet infrastructure. A few hundred cables, easy to sabotage, run through the seabed and connect the continents…
The oldest ancestor of the vampires of the abyss is more than 320 million years old
The oldest vampyropod fossil has been discovered and has ten arms, unlike the octopuses and vampires of the abyss today. The latter would therefore have lost two arms during their…
How to explain the existence of these holes in the abyss in the Bahamas?
Dolines, geological structures typical of our karstic regions, have been discovered at a depth of more than 4,000 meters, at the foot of the Bahamas carbonate platform. You will also…
Ocean: the role of deep ecosystems in carbon capture
The abyssal depths of the oceans are home to much greater biodiversity than plankton and little-explored ecosystems harboring the richest fossil record on Earth. This is what researchers have been…
Nantes explores its colonial past in the exhibition “The abyss”
To bring a new perspective on slavery, for, little by little, ” decolonize his thought “. This is the goal pursued by the Nantes History Museum, in the west of…