The first new species, Peltospira gargantua, was found on a black smoker chimney in the Hydra field at a depth of about 12,300 feet, researchers said.

The discovery involves three new hydrothermal vents that exist along the Mariana Back-Arc, a dynamic zone between Papua New Guinea and Japan where new ocean crust is constantly bursting forth.

Beneath the Arctic’s frozen darkness, scientists have encountered rare black smokers in a place where they were never ...

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

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

The chemical composition of mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal vent fluids is thought to reflect conditions within a deep-seated reaction zone. Although temperature and pressure conditions within this ...

Mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems significantly impact marine chemistry ... in the hydrothermal influenced water and sediment samples near Longqi and Tiancheng vents in the southwestern Indian ...

Figure 7. Variation in relative abundances of typical vent-derived and plume-specialized lineages among the different stages (root, buoyant, and non-buoyant) of hydrothermal plumes roughly ...

They found coral gardens, hydrothermal vents and many suspected new species while exploring around the island chain, including in the deepest trench in the Southern Ocean. But there were many ...

An underwater volcano located about 300 miles off Oregon’s coast is showing alarming signs that it’s about to erupt. Axial Seamount, which sits nearly a mile below the ocean’s surface, last blew its ...

This recent expedition forms part of the Nippon Foundation–Nekton Ocean Census program, the largest initiative working to expedite the discovery of ocean life. During the voyage, the team weathered ...