Giant worms found wriggling under the Pacific seabed have unveiled a thriving ecosystem in a fiercely hostile environment, ...

Giant worms found wriggling under the Pacific seabed have unveiled a thriving ecosystem in a fiercely hostile environment, ...

This isn’t the worm’s first brush with international stardom, nor is it the first time C. elegans has been thanked for aiding award-winning work. Dr. Ruvkun’s award was actually the fourth Nobel Prize ...

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

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While the researchers were aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor, managing operations from above, ...

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

The tubeworms found at hydrothermal sites are unlike almost all other animals on Earth, in that they do not consume other ...

Despite their bright colours and long tentacles, we don't know much about the spaghetti worms that live in Swedish waters. Now marine biologist Arne Nygren and his colleagues at the Department of ...

At 2,515 meters (8,250 feet) below the ocean surface, the hydrothermal vent field of the East Pacific Rise is at depths ...

Life hidden beneath the ocean floor, previously unknown to science, has been discovered. A team of scientists accidentally ...