Destruction of key hydrothermal vents by deep-sea mining could have knock-on impacts for vent fields hundreds of kilometers away, suggests a new paper published in Ecology and Evolution. The study, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mineral-laden water emerging from a hydrothermal vent on the Niua underwater volcano in the Lau Basin, southwest Pacific Ocean.

A high-temperature hydrothermal vent field discovered on Puy des Folles Seamount on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at approximately 6,562 feet in depth. Schmidt Ocean Institute Thousands of feet beneath the ...

Image: Hydrothermal vent fluids contain about one million times more iron than regular ocean water, but the iron pumped out has always been thought to immediately form mineralized particles when it ...

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Since their first discovery a generation ago, it has been recognized that hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the deep dark oceans represented unique habitats for exotic forms of life previously ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are thousands of crab species, each with its own unique features. While we think of crabs as beach creatures, there are many ...

For the first time, scientists observed tubeworms and other complex ocean creatures dwelling beneath hydrothermal vents. By Robin George Andrews Off the western shores of Central and South America, ...

For decades, scientists have debated the idea that deep sea hydrothermal vents, the "hot springs" of the oceans, may have been the birthplace of life on Earth. Water that has filtered down deep into ...