Scientists say the topography of the ocean floor is less well known than the surfaces of Mars, Mercury or Venus and that charting the depth and shape of the seabed will help understand the impact ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A team of researchers has discovered macroscopic life beneath the seafloor of the deep ocean, one of Earth’s most extreme environments. The discovery both complicates scientists’ understanding ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge near the Galápagos Islands. Giant worms ...

Scientists for the first time have uncovered an underworld of animal life thriving beneath the seafloor. Researchers have long studied animal communities near such hydrothermal vents. Many thought ...