How Marine Life is impacting the Seafloor

For years, scientists couldn't solve the mystery of strange pits on the floor of the North Sea. Initially they blamed methane seeps, but it seems like the pits were actually made on porpoise. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Benjamin Carleski, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, DrakoEsper, Eric Jensen, Friso, Garrett Galloway, Harrison Mills, J. Copen, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kenny Wilson, Kevin Bealer, Kevin Knupp, Lyndsay Brown, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources https://eos.org/articles/mysterious-seafloor-pits-may-be-made-on-porpoise https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01102-y https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2019.00157/full https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2003jb002389 https://www.geomar.de/en/news/article/neue-studie-bestaetigt-umfangreiche-gasleckagen-in-der-nordsee https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269857986800326 https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceandepth.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-59431-3 https://www.mgf-nordsee.de/en/about-us/study-sites/sylt-outer-reef-eastern-german-bight/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867419312747 https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article/141/5_Supplement/3949/715691/Mapping-methane-gas-seeps-with-multibeam-and-split Images https://www.gettyimages.com https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01102-y https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Methane_venting_offshore_Virginia.jpg https://www.geomar.de/en/news/article/neue-studie-bestaetigt-umfangreiche-gasleckagen-in-der-nordsee https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Echo_Sounding_USN.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ecomare_-_bruinvis_Michael_boven_water_2012_(bruinvis-boven-water-michael-01-sd).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ecomare_-_bruinvis_Berend_(berend3).jpg