there exist lakes of salty brine, formed from salt seeping out from deposits underlying the seafloor, saturating pools to such an extent that they refuse to mix with the surrounding water.

However, the brine pools are a rich oasis of life ... Not a bad trick for a bunch of marine life hanging out in some salty tidepools. I guess life really does find a way. Thought that was fascinating?

Westminster University researchers recently received $50,000 to explore how water salinity and other variables impact a vital ...

Brine pools are hypersaline underwater lakes that are lethal to most marine life. Created from ancient salt deposits sleeping on the sea floor, they are so dense that their surface is nearly ...

The brine pools in question are in the Gulf of Aqaba ... below the surface, are incredibly salty and completely devoid of oxygen, conditions that don’t exactly seem conducive to life.

These natural death traps are 10 times as salty as regular sea water ... The ROV was exploring the sea bed for 10 hours and the brine pools were only spotted in the last five minutes of the ...