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British scientific expedition discovers world's deepest known undersea volcanic vents

A British scientific expedition has discovered the world's deepest undersea volcanic vents, known as 'black smokers', 3.1 miles (5000 metres) deep in the…

Scientists explore origins of 'supervolcanoes' on the sea floor

“Supervolcanoes” have been blamed for multiple mass extinctions in Earth's history, but the cause of their massive eruptions is unknown.Despite their global…

2010 Rarest of the Rare List Released

The Wildlife Conservation Society released a list of critically endangered species dubbed the “Rarest of the Rare” – a group of animals most in danger of…

First animals to live without oxygen discovered

Roberto Danovaro, from the Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy, worked with a team of researchers to retrieve sediment samples from a deep…

Cosmopolitan eels

Joshua Reece became interested in moray eels in 2005 when he was applying to the PhD program at the University of Hawai’i. Instead of taking him on a campus…

Hawaiian submarine canyons are hotspots of biodiversity and biomass for seafloor animal communities

Researchers from Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) and the Universtiy of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) have now conducted the first extensive study of canyons in the…

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