Alain Bécoulet

Apr 9, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | James Powell |John Downer |William Firebrace |Alain Bécoulet

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. When HMS Challenger set sail in 1872, some scientists still believed in the azoic theory: that life cannot exist below 300 fathoms, or 550 meters. Others thought that creatures lived in the abyss, but that the cold and dark prevented them from evolving. With no more than their dredges, the Challenger scientists soon disproved both ideas.