Imagine a world of darkness, where sunlight never reaches and the pressure is crushing—yet in this abyss, life flourishes in ...

Scientists have recently uncovered a previously unknown hydrothermal vent field off the coast of the Galápagos Islands, aided ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the ...

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.

The discovery, led by scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute in Palo Alto, California, revealed a previously unknown ...

Their expedition was to look for hydrothermal activity ... food source for the larger creatures. The sulfide was in the minerally water coming from the vents, and it was suspected that the heat ...

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 ...

The ecosystem is home to seamounts, hydrothermal vents, deep-sea trenches and species ... the machine’s camera captured a creature that appeared to be “all legs” walking across the seafloor ...