Previously, scientists thought only microbes and viruses could live beneath the seafloor crust where tectonic plates meet.

Scientists discovered life forms beneath hydrothermal vents, revealing complex deep-sea ecosystems hidden below the surface.

In an office wing of the Natural History Museum in London, two researchers slide open a plain storage cupboard door to reveal a hidden treasure: shelves of fossilised corals, up to 30 million years ...

The tubeworms found at hydrothermal sites are unlike almost all other animals on Earth, in that they do not consume other ...

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...

"It was once believed that only microbes and viruses inhabited the subseafloor crust beneath hydrothermal vents," the study ...

Tubeworm larvae, sea snails, and marine worms were uncovered living in tiny caves underneath the ocean floor, revealing life ...

In hidden cavities beneath the floor of the deep ocean, in the oases created by hydrothermal activity, whole communities of ...

NEW YORK -- Scientists for the first time have uncovered an underworld of animal life thriving beneath the seafloor. An ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the East ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered animal life under the seafloor around deep hydrothermal vent systems. The new ...

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health has awarded a grant to the University of Cincinnati to establish the Cincinnati Center for Climate and ...