From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

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

The deepest part of our oceans is not just some of the least-explored places on our planet, but in our entire solar system.

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 ...

Deep-sea volcanic ridges, formed by tectonic plate collisions, give rise to underwater hot springs, creating hydrothermal vents in an otherwise cold environment. A mile and a half beneath the ...

Underground animal life discovered near deep-sea hydrothermal vents Unique marine ecosystem extends below the ocean floor Giant tubeworms, snails, and worms found underground in lava cavities ...

This volcanic ridge, a product of the meeting of tectonic plates on the Pacific seabed, is peppered with hydrothermal vents. A variety of unique sea life clusters around these vents, known to spew out ...

Deep-sea volcanic ridges, formed by the collisions of tectonic plates, create underwater hot springs in an otherwise frigid environment. These hydrothermal vents belch warm towers of elements that ...

In this part of the chain, two tectonic plates are moving away from each other, opening up hydrothermal vents that let out water heated by magma and loaded with chemical compounds. The seabed zone ...

(CNN) — A mile and a half beneath the ocean’s surface, the seafloor seems nearly as alien as the surfaces of other planets. Deep-sea volcanic ridges, formed by the collisions of tectonic ...