New research has revealed that a hairy crustacean—dubbed "The Hoff crab" when it was discovered in 2010—is the first species ...

Scientists discover creatures living beneath the bottom of the sea Scientists discover creatures living beneath the bottom of the sea Smoking Ocean Vents Found in Surprisingly Shallow Water ...

Previously, scientists thought only microbes and viruses could live beneath the seafloor crust where tectonic plates meet.

The veteran HOV can now officially dive deeper into the sea, broadening the horizons of scientific discoveries under the ...

Beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet, giant white worms and other creatures are thriving in the cavities of hydrothermal vents.

Yet amazing communities of life exist at hydrothermal vents and the so-called "black ... Biologists were flabbergasted when they first learned that creatures lived in total darkness at the seafloor.

And a few simple organisms clustered around a hydrothermal vent have evolved to produce new and complex creatures. Brian explains that the key requirement for life, energy, is released when acidic ...

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→Cryptic creature found at volcanic lava field ... They are often found around hydrothermal vents, hydrocarbon seeps or with organic falls like sunken wood and whale carcasses.

These floods of hydrocarbon-rich fluid and gas are in contrast to hydrothermal vents, and as their name ... s morphology was enough to identify the creature as a new species.