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Deep sea animals stowaway on submarines and reach new territory

Marine scientists studying life around deep-sea vents have discovered that some hardy species can survive the extreme change in pressure that occurs when a research submersible rises to the surface. The team's ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

MBARI discovers new deep-sea hydrothermal vents using sonar-mapping robot

“As the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) descended into the blue depths above the Alarcón Rise, the control room was abuzz with anticipation," wrote MBARI geologist Julie Martin in her April 22nd cruise log. "Today we [are] planning to dive on one of the strangest envi ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

World's first sea-floor mine signs first customer

Canada-based mining firm Nautilus Minerals said Tuesday it had signed China's Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group as the first customer of its pioneering Papua New Guinean sea-floor mine.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers discover unknown species at juncture where hot and cold habitats collide

Among the many intriguing aspects of the deep sea, Earth's largest ecosystem, exist environments known as hydrothermal vent systems where hot water surges out from the seafloor. On the flipside the deep sea ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers find rare life in Pacific ocean's depths

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint research group of U.S. and Japanese geoscientists, including a team from UT Dallas, has discovered a system of hydrothermal vents teeming with life three miles below the surface of ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientist suggests life began in freshwater pond, not the ocean

(PhysOrg.com) -- For most everyone alive today, it's almost a fundamental fact. Life began in the ocean and evolved into all of the different organisms that exist today. The idea that this could be wrong causes ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 41 | with audio podcast report

Clam fields found at deep, low-temperature Mariana vents

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have marveled at the unusual life forms thriving at high temperature hydrothermal vents of the deep ocean.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Life in Antarctic lake? It's everywhere else

If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Life discovered on dead hydrothermal vents

Scientists at USC have uncovered evidence that even when hydrothermal sea vents go dormant and their blistering warmth turns to frigid cold, life goes on.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

World's most extreme deep-sea vents revealed

Scientists have revealed details of the world's most extreme deep-sea volcanic vents, 5 kilometres down in a rift in the Caribbean seafloor.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

'Lost world' discovered around Antarctic vents

Communities of species previously unknown to science have been discovered on the seafloor near Antarctica, clustered in the hot, dark environment surrounding hydrothermal vents.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

British oceanographers find new species in Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team sailing on the vessel James Cook has been studying the unique habitat surrounding deep sea vents in the Indian Ocean far off the south-east coast of Africa. The vents, created ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

New mystery on Mars' forgotten plains

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the supposedly best understood and least interesting landscapes on Mars is hiding something that could rewrite the planet's history. Or not. In fact, about all that is certain is that ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Oceans' increasing acidity likely to hurt biodiversity, researchers say

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers have gotten a glimpse into an uncertain future where increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere will lead to higher levels in the ocean as well, leaving ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover chemosynthetic shrimp, tubeworms together for first time at hydrothermal vent

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ocean scientists on the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer observed two species of marine life they believe have never before been seen together at a hydrothermal vent— chemosynthetic shrimp ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast