More than 13,000 feet under the sea, scientists have found a volcanic wonderland unlike any other place on Earth. The newfound ecosystem is crawling with life—hairy snails, ghostly shrimp, and ...

RPI researchers were the first to ever collect data during an underwater eruption on the Mid Ocean Ridge System. They happened to be on site to gather data from hydrothermal vents.

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The remarkable discovery helps answer some questions about the mysteries of the deep sea. Scientists stunned after ...

This vast field of mineral towers, called the Lost City, is the oldest known hydrothermal system in the ocean. Scientists ...

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.

Beneath the Atlantic Ocean, scientists are doing new research on the Hydrothermal Field, an undersea world that may hold the ...

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

Hidden deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a remarkable undersea landscape known as the Lost City Hydrothermal Field could be ...

It is the largest habitat on Earth – and also the least explored. As world leaders prepare to meet in Nice for a major UN summit on the ocean's future, scientists say we still know remarkably ...

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The Boring Volcanic Field consists of 80 known volcanic vents. More vents likely exist but were buried by the Missoula floods about 15,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.