are living with snails and other worms underneath the shallow seafloor crust in an area known as the East Pacific Rise. They were discovered when a deep-diving, remotely operated vehicle dug into ...

A community of marine life was found below the East Pacific Rise, a volcanically active ridge located where two tectonic plates meet on the floor, according to a paper published Tuesday in Nature ...

Led by the University of Delaware’s Andrew Wozniak, associate professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy, a team of scientists recently witnessed a rare seafloor eruption 1,300 miles west of ...

New research found a whole ecosystem of unseen creatures thriving beneath an undersea volcano in East Pacific Rise off the ...

Since the satellite recording of ocean ... pool of warm water normally located in the western Pacific Ocean sloshes over to the central and eastern Pacific - can also result in the vertical ...

An eelpout swims by a tower of tubeworms at the Tica Vent, a site on the East Pacific Rise 8,200 feet deep. Animal life is flourishing underneath the seafloor according to a new study of deep-sea ...

Located in the East Pacific Rise (a tectonic plate boundary on the floor of the southeastern Pacific Ocean), this previously unstudied patch of seafloor sheds new light on the inner workings of ...