In the depths of Earth's briny waters lurk some truly strange deep-sea creatures Rare and remarkable deep-sea creatures ...

Stanford University. "'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 14 March 2025. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / 250314170431.htm>.

Zare and his colleagues say that the energy required could have come from "microlightning," incredibly small flickers of electricity passing between droplets in moving sprays of water on early Earth.

The annual sargassum bloom, a vast floating brown blanket of seaweed stretching across 5,500 miles in the water between Africa and the Caribbean, is encroaching on Florida's coasts and spreading ...