Sea-Floor Spreading Geophysical phenomena ranging from earthquakes to continental drift are being explained by a new theory that gives promise of eventually relating geomagnetism and the earth's ...

On a cruise to the East Pacific Rise, scientists around Monika Bright from the University of Vienna, Austria, and Sabine Gollner from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research have discovered ...

An ancient slab of seafloor that was around when Earth’s earliest known dinosaurs emerged has been discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean, where it has seemingly hovered in a sort of mid-dive for ...

Known as hydrothermal vents, these underwater volcanic ridges have long been known to attract all manner of microscopic marine life to the otherwise largely uninhabited seafloor. Until this ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the East ... the East Pacific Rise, a fast-spreading ocean ridge where several ...

NEW YORK — Scientists for the first time have uncovered an underworld of animal life thriving beneath the seafloor. An expedition to a volcanically active ridge in the Pacific off South America ...

For the first time ever, scientists have discovered whole communities of complex lifeforms living underneath the seafloor. And we’re not just talking about microbes here, but about giant ...

Scientists have uncovered communities of animals such as tube worms and snails living in volcanic caves beneath the seafloor, revealing a previously unknown but thriving ecosystem. Researchers made ...

“As similar geological phenomena are known from other intermediate and fast-spreading ridges, we think it is likely that subseafloor vent ... As the remotely operated vehicle teased open the cracks on ...

A "community" has been uncovered in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Researchers have found a thriving ecosystem of animal life in an unlikely place: beneath hydrothermal vents under the seafloor ...

To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. A mile and a half beneath the ocean’s surface, the seafloor seems nearly as alien as the surfaces of other planets. Deep-sea volcanic ridges ...