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'Dark Oxygen': A Deep-sea Discovery That Has Split Scientists

Polymetallic nodules and an abyssal urchin (Credit: AFP)

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

Some scientists think so, but others have challenged the claim that so-called "dark oxygen" is being produced in the lightless abyss of the seabed.

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