The remarkable discovery of animal life beneath the seafloor shows that life finds a way even in the most extreme ...
A small marine creature resists the invisible threat of plastic. Tardigrades, those quasi-immortal animals, do not appear to ...
At 2,515 meters (8,250 feet) below the ocean surface, the hydrothermal vent field of the East Pacific Rise is at depths ...
The tubeworms found at hydrothermal sites are unlike almost all other animals on Earth, in that they do not consume other ...
The team specifically found the tubeworms R. pachyptila and O. alvinae and the mussels B. thermophilus and also polychaete ...
Tubeworm larvae, sea snails, and marine worms were uncovered living in tiny caves underneath the ocean floor, revealing life ...
Large animals including tube worms and snails have been discovered living under the seabed. Scientists used to think the dark ...
Fish can withstand being tossed around to an extent, too, Cassill said. Little marine worms called polychaete, a cousin of earthworms, have their own special way of surviving a hurricane.
Hydrothermal vents are found along deep sea cracks in the Earth’s crust, where the high temperature, incredible pressure and ...
They no longer filter food from water, feeding instead on aquatic invertebrates such as polychaete worms and crustaceans. Ana explains, 'There is a sponge that allows a polychaete to live in a furrow ...
Most Maldivians haven’t, because they don’t know how to swim In honor of the first ever International Polychaete Day, learn about the bristly worms that are everywhere in the ocean While ...