Previously, scientists thought only microbes and viruses could live beneath the seafloor crust where tectonic plates meet.

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

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 ...

The Pompeii worm, or Alvinella pompejana, is an extremophile residing in one of the most inhospitable environments imaginable: the hydrothermal vent systems deep in the ocean. Found at depths of over ...

Named after the city that was famously destroyed by a volcanic eruption, the Pompeii worm can only be found by hydrothermal vents deep in the Pacific Ocean. A hydrothermal vent is a crack, or fissure, ...

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

With a total of 488 distinct animal species, it's the highest biodiversity count ever recorded in a single vent region.