Down here, in this blackness, creatures live beyond the normal rules of time.
Siphonophores are virtually eternal. They repeatedly clone themselves.
Some eventually growing longer than a blue whale.
Down here it snows. Continuous clouds of organic debris drift slowly down from above.
This is food, and a whole variety of filter feeders depend on it.
Jellyfish ,and delicate sea cucumbers.
The 1% of marine snow they miss eventually settles on the sea floor.
Over millions of years it forms a layer of mud up to a mile thick.
It's an empty plain that covers half the surface of our planet.
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