Scientists from Bremen, Germany, have characterized novel enzymes from deep-sea microbes with a key function in the ethane ...

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 ...

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 ...

"We discovered vent animal life in the cavities of the ocean's crust. We now know that the unique hydrothermal vent ... body in a sack-like organ turn sulfur from the water into energy for the ...

Though researchers knew life existed in and around the hydrothermal vents, whether living things made use of the sediments beneath the miles of seawater itself was not clear. In its recent work ...

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 ...

Worms and snails have been found living in cavities under hydrothermal vents more than 2.5 kilometres beneath the ... including carnivorous polychaete worms, sediment-eating snails and other species ...