The ROV was used to drill holes in the ocean floor and lift rock slabs to reveal fluid-filled cavities beneath the ...

Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all ...

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Turkish scientists are set to explore the depths of oceans and seas for clues about life in space through the METU Institute ...

Turkish scientists are set to explore the depths of oceans and seas for clues about life in space through the Middle Eastern ...

In 1977 scientists discovered that at the deepest parts of the ocean ... lay around the vents, and in some places, had accumulated so high as to look like chimneys on the sea floor, smoking ...

He began this research in 1996, about two decades after scientists discovered hydrothermal vents—cracks in the deep ocean floor where water is heated to hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit by molten ...

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Roadside Springs thermal area is a collection of distinct areas of altered rock and hydrothermal features. The new steam vent is at the ...

The ocean floor is actually less well-mapped ... DR DIVA AMON:This is a piece of a chimney, of a hydrothermal vent chimney. And you can see that this is pretty much a huge lump of metal.