Initially, the researchers had been looking for the larvae of tube worms and other creatures in the hydrothermal vents. They ...

The animals are not aliens, but giant pile worms, large marine worms that are typically found on the seafloor, but will swarm ...

Their expedition was to look for hydrothermal activity like that found ... eyeless shrimp, and colorful tube worms. But no sunlight. How this food chain began was a mystery. It was apparent ...

tube worms with no mouth or anus. They were feeding on microbes that were living in the vents. 4. Hydrothermal vents are gaps in the sea bed Gaps from which water streams out, heated from the ...