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The Deep Dark Ocean

By Helen Scales
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Travel to the bottom of the ocean to explore the hidden deep sea environment with marine biologist Dr Helen Scales. The deep sea is the biggest, most mysterious part of our planet. For a long time, scientists thought it was just a huge empty space, devoid... Read More
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Travel to the furthest depths of the ocean to explore the hidden deep-sea environment with marine biologist Dr. Helen Scales.

Travel to the bottom of the ocean to explore the hidden deep sea environment with marine biologist Dr Helen Scales.

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Travel to the bottom of the ocean to explore the hidden deep sea environment with marine biologist Dr Helen Scales.

The deep sea is the biggest, most mysterious part of our planet. For a long time, scientists thought it was just a huge empty space, devoid of life: too dark, too cold, too much pressure and not enough food. Now we know differently: the deep sea is full of amazing life all the way to the very bottom. In order to survive down there, animals get up to all sorts of strange things and look completely different to anything else on Earth.

Written by award-winning marine biologist and author Dr Helen Scales, The Deep Dark Ocean comprehensively visualises the deep ocean environment and brings its beautiful and unbelievable quirks to life. Readers will find themselves immersed in the velvety dark landscapes of deep sea plains, trenches and mountain ranges, and discover ghostly octopuses, sea pigs, dancing crabs, coral and sponge forests, Elvis worms and Ninja lanternsharks among other remarkable creatures.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500653937

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 November 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: Illustrated in colour throughout; 48 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Ana Miminoshvili

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 230.0mm

Height: 300.0mm

Weight: 350g

Pages: 48

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About the Author

Dr Helen Scales is a marine biologist, writer and broadcaster who divides her time between the UK and France. In 2025, her books for adults, What the Wild Sea Can Be, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction and the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing and longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Her children's books include the global bestseller What a Shell Can Tell and Scientists in the Wild: Antarctica, which was shortlisted for the Children's Travel Book of the Year and The Week Junior Children's STEM Book of the Year. She writes regularly for the Guardian, teaches at Cambridge University and is a storytelling ambassador for the Save Our Seas Foundation. @drhelenscales

Ana Miminoshvili is an award-winning illustrator and designer from Tbilisi, Georgia. Ana won the Communication Arts Excellence Award 2023 and the YOUNG GUNS 22 Creative Choice Award in 2022. Her clients include The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ and The Washington Post, among others. @anano__

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