Mysterious holes in the deep seafloor have popped up in the Bering Sea, and scientists think they have found their makers: small, shrimp-like crustaceans.
Between July and September 2022, a team of scientists embarked on the AleutBio expedition in the North Pacific. The aim was to study the biodiversity of the Aleutian Trench, a plunging, 7-kilometre-deep gash in the seafloor near Alaska. But the research vessel also sampled three locations in the nearby …