Beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet, giant white worms and other ...

Hydrothermal vents are cracks in the seabed that spew ... While the team was digging around near the Fava Flow Vents along the East Pacific Rise, they found larger wildlife — giant tube worms ...

Yet amazing communities of life exist at hydrothermal vents and the so-called "black smoker" chimneys that, given the right conditions, rise above them like erupting stalagmites. Blind shrimp ...