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 ...

We are exploring the role of hydrothermal vents in driving the evolution of novel adaptations in deep-sea animals, throughout the 500+ million year history of complex life on our planet. In many parts ...

While deep-sea hydrothermal vents are considered potential sites ... This research enhances the "primordial soup" theory by revealing potential pathways for synthesizing life-related molecules ...

Sunlight penetrates no farther than a few hundred feet down, leaving the deep-sea floor as dark as the deepest cave. With no sunlight, there are no plants; all vent life belongs to the animal kingdom.