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Animal life is flourishing underneath the seafloor according to a new study of deep-sea hydrothermal vents, suggesting this mysterious landscape has complex ecosystems. Hydrothermal vents are ...

Located along the ridge are hydrothermal vents, or openings in the seafloor where seawater and hot magma from beneath Earth’s crust come together to create a type of underwater hot spring.

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. HYDROTHERMAL VENTS are the planet’s exhaust pipes. Kilometres below the ocean surface, they relentlessly belch ...

Now in her final year of graduate studies at the University of Victoria, Harris has spent more than 150 days at sea, using submersibles to take samples from hydrothermal vents around the world and ...

But new research reveals it’s not as far-fetched as it might appear. Worms and snails have been found living in cavities under hydrothermal vents more than 2.5 kilometres beneath the ocean’s surface.

The creatures may have been pushed into their subsurface home by swirling waters from nearby hydrothermal vents. Beneath the ocean floor, under hydrothermal vents spewing hot water, a community of ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - A deep-diving robot that chiseled into the rocky Pacific seabed at a spot where two of the immense plates comprising Earth's outer shell meet has unearthed a ...