Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

Until the 1970’s people thought the deepest parts of the ocean were devoid of life- then hydrothermal vents were discovered ...

Biology professor Shana Goffredi calls these new curious creatures “extremely adorable” — although arachnophobes may disagree ...

An eelpout swims by a tower of tubeworms at the Tica Vent, a site on the East Pacific Rise 8,200 feet deep. Experiments testing the theory of species dispersal through cracks in the Earth's crust ...

The vents along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge have attracted interest not only for their scientific significance, but also for commercially valuable minerals that could be extracted via deep-sea mining ...

According to the National Academy of Science the 3 new species use methane, with the help of bacteria, to get energy.

"The first life probably emerged in deep-sea vents using hydrogen, not sunlight, as the energy source," Greening said. "It's incredible that, 3.7 billion years later, ...

Animals found living underground near deep-sea hydrothermal vents. By Will Dunham. October 17, 2024 2:29 PM UTC Updated October 17, 2024 Item 1 of 4 Giant tubeworms on the seafloor ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

A large cluster of tubeworms at the East Pacific Rise, 8,200 feet deep. Researchers using a deep sea rover to search beneath hydrothermal vents uncovered a series of subsurface chambers that serve ...

STEFAN M. SIEVERT, COSTANTINO VETRIANI, Chemoautotrophy at Deep-Sea Vents, Oceanography, Vol. 25, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON OCEANIC SPREADING CENTER PROCESSES | Ridge 2000 PROGRAM RESEARCH (MARCH 2012), ...

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite ...