Marine scientists indeed call a deep-sea brine pool off the eastern coast of Mexico a "Jacuzzi of Despair" or "Hot Tub of Despair." While it's true that most organisms that enter the water will ...

Earth is teeming with organisms that manage to survive in the most extreme environments, including in some rare deep-sea brine pools in the Red Sea, which very nearly went undiscovered.

Discovery of the deep-sea NEOM Brine Pools “Our current understanding is that life originated on Earth in the deep sea, almost certainly in anoxic—without oxygen—conditions,” said Purkis.

The brine pools were found 4,000 feet below the surface ... used remotely operated submersibles and deep-sea probes to explore the area of deep-sea trenches lying between Africa and the Arabian ...

Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms with a calcareous shell. They not only provide evidence of past habitats, but ...

Scientists believe that life on Earth may have first appeared in deep-sea conditions similar to those of these brine pools, which researchers have called "death traps". Researchers suggest that ...

"Deep-sea brine pools are a great analog for the early Earth and, despite being devoid of oxygen and hypersaline, are teeming with a rich community of so-called 'extremophile' microbes." ...

Catastrophic flooding across the Arabian Peninsula in the winter of 2024 underscores the urgency of studying the frequency and triggers of such extreme weather events. (Representational image) A study ...

highly saline water in the rift valley of the Red Sea where two areas of similar water had previously been reported 1–3. The two known areas, now called the Discovery Deep (21° 17′ N., ...

Researchers speculated that these extreme environments mimic the harsh conditions of early Earth, particularly in the deep sea where life may have first emerged. Brine pools are rare, with only ...