The discovery of worms and snails confirms that these still-mysterious, dark hotspots of life extend beyond what’s visible ...

A deep-sea expedition made the surprising discovery of a previously unknown ecosystem in which animals such as giant tube ...

Tubeworm larvae, sea snails, and marine worms were uncovered living in tiny caves underneath the ocean floor, revealing life ...

The remarkable discovery of animal life beneath the seafloor shows that life finds a way even in the most extreme ...

A recent deep-sea expedition has uncovered a previously unknown ecosystem beneath the ocean floor, where communities of ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden ecosystem beneath hydrothermal vents on the seafloor, revealing life in volcanic caves.

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

On the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, near fissures spewing hot water, a submersible stumbled upon a thriving community of animals living in cavities below.

"It was once believed that only microbes and viruses inhabited the subseafloor crust beneath hydrothermal vents," the study ...

Dark oxygen could have been discovered for the first time in history: Experts are worried about what could we do know ...

Researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan and The Earth-Life Science Institute ... cracks in the ocean floor, it gets heated by ...

A variety of sea life clusters around the vents ... allowing life to thrive in unexpected places above and below the ocean floor. While the team first observed the subseafloor ecosystem in ...