If there is a harsher place to live than a hydrothermal vent, it hasn't been found yet. Pitch darkness, poison gas, heavy metals, extreme acidity, enormous pressure, water at turns frigid and ...

took the deep sea submersible Alvin to the Galápagos Rift near the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Their expedition was to look for hydrothermal activity like that found at Yellowstone ...

"The spontaneous formation of ion channels discovered in deep sea hydrothermal vents has direct implications for the origin of life on Earth and beyond," says biochemist Ryuhei Nakamura ...

By being resident on-site at the vent, InVADER will capture transient events and provide unprecedented spatial and temporal access to a deep ocean hydrothermal system. This data will determine ...

We also study the ecology and evolution of animals living at hydrothermal vents - underwater hot springs and oases of remarkable evolutionary novelty in the deep sea. We are undertaking a range of ...

This is not altruism per se, but rather by exploiting the biofilm ... The bacteria of deep-sea hydrothermal vents can experience toxic metals coupled with temperatures changing from >100 o ...

and hydrothermal vents. It encompassed nearly the entire depth range of deep-sea fish habitats (1,218–7,730 meters) and yielded 11 deep-sea fish species from six major groups. By analyzing ...