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

Schmidt Ocean Institute discovered giant worms reproducing deep beneath ... shallow cavities in the subseafloor of deep-sea ...

[New Paper] Meet Delectopecten thermus, a new species of Glass Scallop from a deep-sea hot vent in Okinawa Trough, Japan! We ...

Deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems are unique environments found on the ocean floor, characterized by the presence of mineral-rich hot water that supports diverse biological communities.

1942) and a team of oceanographers and marine geochemists and geologists, took the deep ... the vents, and in some places, had accumulated so high as to look like chimneys on the sea floor ...

Ophryotrocha bohnorum is a small deep-sea worm with mighty jaws, found at hydrothermal vents near Tonga. It is named in recognition of Jeffrey and Brenda Bohn and their family. (Read the scientific ...

Thousands of pearl octopuses were discovered in 2018 lining thermal vents near a deep-sea volcano ... for ecosystems everywhere as the planet warms. Scientists lost a shark tag.

Giant tubeworms, which are known as the world's heftiest worms and can grow ... of protecting the hydrothermal vent ecosystems from human impact, including deep-sea mining.