Additionally, critics say what is known about the deep sea suggests that mining could cause irreversible harm to habitats and species that are essential to the functioning of the ocean.

Source: https://southafricatoday.net/environment/norway-proposes-opening-germany-sized-area-of-its-continental-shelf-to-deep-sea-mining/

The Apennine fossils force scientists to reconsider which factors might have triggered the vertebrate colonization of the deep sea.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-09-earliest-deep-sea-vertebrates-revealed-unusual.html

Vienna (dpa) – Not only in rocks near hot deep-sea sources, but also in rocks near the deep sea, life can only reproduce.

Source: https://www.thewestonforum.com/science-discovery-of-a-new-habitat-in-the-deep-sea-worms-in-rocks-knowledge/