Beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet, giant white worms and other ...

Oceanographer Moronke Harris collects samples of bacteria from deepsea vents that could be key to developing new antiviral ...

It was a radical notion which required a radical test: breaking open the crust beneath a hydrothermal vent. Working with a team of marine biologists and deep-sea technical experts, Drs Gollner and ...

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.

“Our understanding of animal life at deep-sea hydrothermal vents has greatly expanded with this discovery,” Bright said in a statement. “Two dynamic vent habitats exist. Vent animals above ...

All the species were previously known to have lived near such vents, but never underground. "We discovered vent animal life ...

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 ...

Sea mining, or deep-sea mining, has emerged as a hot topic in the global conversation around resource extraction. With the ...

“The deep sea is allowing us to source new pharmaceuticals ... This is also where the world’s first discovered hydrothermal vent field is located. They also discovered that this vent has ...

A rare observance of a deep sea squid using one of its tentacles like a giant tongue got stranger still when it spewed out its intended meal and sped away. The bizarre moment was recorded off the ...