Previously, scientists thought only microbes and viruses could live beneath the seafloor crust where tectonic plates meet.

The newly-discovered ecosystem surrounding a hydrothermal vent could give scientists clues as to how life began on Earth.

Deep-sea vents, commonly referred to as nature’s chemical laboratories, are now discovered to be releasing rare and precious ...

(WJW) – Scientists discovered something unexpected near an underwater volcano — a whole new ecosystem of tiny critters was thriving beneath the hydrothermal vents. According to the U.S. National Ocean ...

A new ecosystem has been discovered in volcanic cavities beneath hydrothermal vents at a well-studied undersea volcano on the East Pacific Rise off Central America. The landmark 30-day expedition ...

Gold mixes with seawater from rivers, aeolian dust, and hydrothermal vents. It also binds to particles and settles on the ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Far below the waves of the western Pacific, researchers have uncovered a hydrothermal system unlike anything seen before.

Mysterious white halos emerging around sunken barrels of chemical waste on the seafloor off California's coast have been ...

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 ...