Hydrothermal vents are openings on the ocean floor where ... There are also ghostly white crabs, eyeless shrimp with light sensors on their backs, and fish that seem almost alien in form.

In a Queensland river where natural gas seeps up through the water, many living creatures have come to depend on it for their ...

Living in tubes attached to hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean ... are so acidic that they seem lifeless—until you look closer. Crustaceans like fairy shrimp and copepods have been discovered ...

Living exclusively around hydrothermal vents in the South Pacific Ocean at depths approaching ... a continuous shower of organic detritus sinking from upper waters. Mantis Shrimp. Image via Openverse.

Before the eruption, scientists saw a wide variety of ocean life around the Tica hydrothermal vent. Andrew Wozniak For the first time, scientists have witnessed an active seafloor volcanic ...

There, sea life thrives off the mineral-rich gases that exit through hydrothermal vents, which are like underwater hot springs. Streams of hot fluid containing billions of microbes and clumps of ...

With a flood of imported seafood driving the U.S. shrimp industry to the edge of ruin, a consulting company out of Houston is testing truth in menu labeling. Shrimp on display at Porgy’s ...