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Deep, Dark Secrets Indeed

New books shed some light on immense, unexplored ocean depths

By Zach Samalin,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 8, 2007 7:31 AM CST

(Newser) – Though the first deep-sea expedition took place in 1931, humans still know little about what goes on miles below sea level. What we do know is startlingly strange, Tim Flannery writes in a look at two new volumes in the New York Review of Books—...   Read full story »

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