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Scientists probing the bottom of the Pacific Ocean made a surprising discovery: animals living underneath the seafloor in an area with volcanic activity. Giant tubeworms, which are known as the ...

We’ve all seen the surreal footage in nature documentaries showing hydrothermal vents on the frigid ocean floor—bellowing black plumes of super-hot water—and the life forms that cling to them. Now, a ...

Hydrogen-producing hydrothermal systems in the deep ocean are rare but critical to understanding Earth's internal processes and the conditions that may have fostered life's origins. Now scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have uncovered communities of animals such as tube worms and snails living in volcanic caves beneath the seafloor, ...

“Animals are able to live beneath hydrothermal vents, and that, to me, is mind-blowing.” ‘Underworld’ of the seafloor Scientists have long been intrigued by the animal life that clusters around ...