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

[New Paper] Meet Delectopecten thermus, a new species of Glass Scallop from a deep-sea hot vent in Okinawa Trough, Japan! We ...

The Lost City Hydrothermal Field is located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean – and its towering spires that shoot out hot ...

Some creatures on Earth are so tough, they make the phrase “survival of the fittest” look like an understatement. These unkillable organisms have adapted to endure the harshest environments, from ...

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, ...

Guys aren't removing the "X"-shaped tacking stitch holding the coat's vent together. You know the one I'm talking about: Shutterstock Yep, that one. It serves a purpose, but only for a time.

This leads to seizures and more. Undercooked pork can contain tapeworm larvae, potentially leading to tapeworm infection in the small intestine, with each worm shedding thousands of eggs. It is the ...

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

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 ...

Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049, PR China ...

Until the 1970’s people thought the deepest parts of the ocean were devoid of life- then hydrothermal vents were discovered on the sea floor. On The Point, we talk with WHOI senior geochemist ...