An AI just scanned the Mariana Trench, and what it found has researchers rethinking everything they know about the deep ocean. Earlier expeditions barely scratched the surface, missing formations and anomalies hidden in the crushing darkness.
In 2014, researchers conducting acoustic surveys in the Pacific Ocean recorded an unfamiliar sound from the deepest part of the Mariana Trench. The sound, which lasted a few seconds and had a five-part structure, was later named the “Biotwang.” Scientists could not identify its source at the time.The Mariana Trench is the deepest oceanic location on Earth, with its lowest point, Challenger Deep, a…