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

A volcanically active ridge, the extensive rise occurs where two tectonic plates meet on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Located along the ridge are hydrothermal vents, or openings in the seafloor ...

Tubeworm larvae, sea snails, and marine worms were uncovered living in tiny caves underneath the ocean floor, revealing life is interconnected below and above it.

All the species were previously known to have lived near such vents, but never underground ... gradually over time in a process called plate tectonics. The East Pacific Rise is located where ...

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 ...

Hydrothermal vents are found along deep sea cracks in the Earth’s ... These spaces form as the result of volcanic activity under the sea. “As tectonic plates move, hot lava can be expelled into the ...

Oct 23, 2024 08:00:00 Tube worms live beneath the Earth's crust in extremely extreme environments, such as around deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Hydrothermal vents are fissures in the earth that ...

a fast-spreading ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet off the coast of South America. The researchers were originally searching for the larvae of tube worms and other hydrothermal vent ...