However, a deep-sea exploration conducted by Schmidt Ocean Institute last year revealed that giant tube worms live there as ...

The seabed zone was first discovered in the 1970s. But the latest research found tube worms and molluscs that thrive despite water pressure 250 times greater than at the surface and the total ...

Eventually the ocean giant will begin to sink ... rather than through food. Specialised mollusc and tube worm species are chemoautotrophs that take advantage of whale falls, feeding on the chemicals ...

In 1977 scientists discovered that at the deepest parts of the ocean, which people had long ... eyeless shrimp, and colorful tube worms. But no sunlight. How this food chain began was a mystery.

Clues on the ocean floor helped solve a Sherlock Holmes ... and among the most common forms of life around those vents were tube worms. With further testing, the researchers determined that ...

“The material described herein was found during a freezer clean up: in a pudding of old ice and forgotten Eppendorf tubes, a vial with an unusual animal was recovered,” researchers said in a March 26 ...