researchers believed that only microbes and viruses could survive in the harsh environment of hydrothermal vents. But a ...

Beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet, giant white worms and other ...

The animals are not aliens, but giant pile worms, large marine worms that are typically found on the seafloor, but will swarm ...

As the only woman who has piloted the deep-ocean research submersible Alvin, Van Dover is among the few researchers to have explored hydrothermal vents firsthand. A love of the ocean lured Nicole ...

Giant tubeworms, which are known as the world's heftiest worms and can grow to several ... two tectonic plates meet and there are hydrothermal vents, which are like hot springs on the ocean's ...

tube worms with no mouth or anus. They were feeding on microbes that were living in the vents. 4. Hydrothermal vents are gaps in the sea bed Gaps from which water streams out, heated from the ...

We are exploring the role of hydrothermal vents in driving the evolution of novel adaptations in deep-sea animals, throughout the 500+ million year history of complex life on our planet. In many parts ...

Their expedition was to look for hydrothermal ... the hot vents and chimneys were thriving communities of strange species such as giant clams, eyeless shrimp, and colorful tube worms.

New research has revealed that a hairy crustacean—dubbed "The Hoff crab" when it was discovered in 2010—is the first species ...