A year after Haifa researchers discover the first deep-sea brine pools opposite Tel Aviv, University of Florida scientists find one in the Gulf of Aqaba Brine pools are one of the most extreme ...

Discovery of the deep-sea NEOM Brine Pools in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Communications Earth & Environment , 2022; 3 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-022-00482-x Cite This Page : ...

Rare deep-sea brine pools discovered in the Red Sea may hold clues to environmental upheavals in the region that span millennia, and could even shed light on the origins of life on Earth ...

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 ...

The deep sea brine pools have been named NEOM by the study authors, who, having stumbled across fresh sampling grounds, helped themselves to a few scientific souvenirs. “Given that these pools ...

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

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.

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 ...