Co-directed with filmmaker Khaled Abdulwahed, Purple Sea is assembled from the extraordinary images captured during the period she and the other passengers spent trapped in the water. Adrift on the ...

as well as deep-sea hydrothermal vents. In fact, when microbial life first began emerging on Earth some three billion years ago, purple bacteria was likely one of the most widespread forms of life ...

Several miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, scientists aboard a submersible scanned the shadowy seafloor for signs of life. Soon enough, a “long” purple sea creature caught their ...

Earth was once purple, not green! Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for photosynthesis, reflecting violet hues.