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Just after 5:09 a.m., on Saturday, June 13, monitoring equipment in Biscuit Basin registered anomalous activity, including ...

Microplastics have been found in the bodies of deep-sea organisms living at depths exceeding 2,000 meters. This study ...

In spring 2015, MBARI researchers discovered a large, previously unknown field of hydrothermal vents in the Gulf of California, about 150 kilometers (100 miles) east of La Paz, Mexico. Lying more than ...

A new ecosystem has been discovered in volcanic cavities beneath hydrothermal vents at a well-studied undersea volcano on the East Pacific Rise off Central America. The landmark 30-day expedition ...

On the ocean floor, at a depth that not even sunlight can reach, volcanoes are spewing precious minerals at temperatures reaching 750 degrees Fahrenheit. These hydrothermal vents somehow also provide ...

Hydrothermal vents are among the strangest ecosystems on Earth: eerie places where the planet’s deep heat and chemicals mingle with ocean water to support thriving networks of bizarre life-forms that ...

Just days after a hydrothermal blast struck Biscuit Basin, a brand-new pool of boiling water appeared near the explosion site ...

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