Tubeworm larvae, sea snails, and marine worms were uncovered living in tiny caves underneath the ocean floor, revealing life is interconnected below and above it.

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.

Researchers have long studied animal communities near such hydrothermal vents. Many thought only microbes and viruses could survive underneath. To their surprise, an underwater robot last summer ...

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 ...

Barber found that an abundance of water on Earth is most likely key, in some way, to the origin of life — specifically, in either deep sea hydrothermal vents or in tide pools. It's for this ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...