The discovery, led by scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute in Palo Alto, California, revealed a previously unknown ecosystem lurking beneath the seabed. Using a remotely operated submersible, ...

But the latest research found tube worms and molluscs that thrive ... polychaetes, or bristle worms, and marine snails. Bright said the team's work showed that "unexpected discoveries" can be ...

in a pudding of old ice and forgotten Eppendorf tubes, a vial with an unusual animal was recovered,” researchers said in a March 26 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa. The “lost and ...