It’s something never seen before,” marine biologist Cherisse Du Preez told Science Post France, when her team’s submersible ...

As David Attenborough reflects in his new documentary Ocean, "After living for nearly 100 years on this planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea". We ...

The 50-kilometer-wide seamount contains three dormant volcanoes, the floor of which drops more than two kilometers below the ...

especially those that inhabit hydrothermal vent communities and cold-water corals. These mining activities pose multiple risks to biodiversity, including potentially irreversible losses and ...

Scientists on a Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition have discovered a new hydrothermal vent field larger than a professional ... Extended Protection for Marine Resilience and Biodiversity While much of ...

Hydrothermal vents are openings in the seafloor where ... we don’t have a sense of how much biodiversity or biomass is actually being represented within the subsurface,” says Lauer.

The discovery of subseafloor ecosystems complicates our understanding of hydrothermal vents’ biodiversity and geochemical processes. These environments are known to be rich in microorganisms, which ...

But new research reveals it’s not as far-fetched as it might appear. Worms and snails have been found living in cavities under hydrothermal vents more than 2.5 kilometres beneath the ocean’s surface.

One of the new OSD species – a hydrothermal vent limpet, Lepetodrilus marianae. Credit: Chong Chen, Hiromi Kayama Watanabe, and Miwako Tsuda Ocean biodiversity is under significant threat due to ...

(MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen) Hydrothermal vent fields are some of the most interesting ... fields is important also for trying to protect Earth's ...

Hydrothermal vents can be found around the world at the junctions of drifting tectonic plates. But there are many hydrothermal fields still to be discovered. During a 2022 expedition of the MARIA S.