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 ...

However, a deep-sea exploration conducted by Schmidt Ocean Institute last year revealed that giant tube worms live there as well. "Here we report, to our knowledge for the first time, the ...

Parchment worms (Chaetopterus variopedatus) construct tubes in underwater sediment and constantly pump water through the structures to collect oxygen. Cable bacteria (Desulfobulbaceae) act like ...