DARK OXYGEN
“I first saw this in 2013 - an enormous amount of oxygen being produced at the seafloor in complete darkness,” explains Prof Andrew Sweetman from the Scottish Association for Marine Science. “I just ignored it, because I’d been taught - you only get oxygen through photosynthesis….Eventually, I realised that for years I’d been ignoring this potentially huge discovery,” he told BBC News.
I love his honesty. We all whizz past things without re-evaluting and rethinking.
Prof Sweetman looked again a few years later and what he discovered is mind blowing.
Here is the story of dark Oxygen and it’s new knowledge.