Beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet, giant white worms and other ...

Perhaps the most astonishing among these are deep-sea ... a suitable vent, it anchors itself and starts to grow, forming a tube from secreted minerals. As it matures, the worm takes in its ...

Using a deep-sea remotely operated vehicle (ROV), researchers ... conveyor belt,” to travel from vent to vent. The tube worms initially live down there before moving up toward the vents as ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures ... shallow cavities in the subseafloor of deep-sea hydrothermal vents," researchers wrote in a study published Tuesday (Oct ...

And tube worms were observed living several centimeters ... “Our understanding of animal life at deep-sea hydrothermal vents has greatly expanded with this discovery,” Bright said in a statement.

It was a radical notion which required a radical test: breaking open the crust beneath a hydrothermal vent. Working with a team of marine biologists and deep-sea technical experts, Drs Gollner and ...

Researchers using a deep sea rover to search beneath hydrothermal vents uncovered a series of subsurface chambers that serve as tube worm nurseries and a path for worm larvae to travel between vents.

Hydrothermal vents are fissures in the ... Ridge reported that organisms such as tube worms were discovered when exploring cavities around deep-sea hydrothermal vents. https://www.livescience.com ...

In the deep-sea environment ... vents, Riftia pachyptila's chemoautotrophic symbionts use energy from hydrogen sulfide to fix carbon that fuels the metabolism and growth of the worms.