The unusual holes in the ocean didn't reveal an underwater volcano or some hydrothermal vents, but rather something remarkable.

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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

If you happened to be travelling on the tube yesterday, you may have run into a crowd of people stripped down to their boxers, budgy smugglers and briefs. No, it wasn’t a fever dream – they ...

“At the hydrothermal vents, there’s like a riot of life because there’s all this energy,” Chadwick said. “There’s all these animals — limpets, worms, crabs — and that attracts octopuse ...

It is a hot spot for hydrothermal vents ... derive their energy from mineral-rich vent waters rather than sunlight. These microbes form thick, nutrient-rich mats along the seafloor that support shrimp ...