Sentences with phrase «around hydrothermal vents»

Suggestions of hydrothermal activity on Europa led researchers to speculate that life there could resemble ecosystems around hydrothermal vents on Earth and would survive on chemosynthesis, extracting energy from chemicals.

The revolutionary discovery in the 1970s of a thriving complex marine ecosystem around the hydrothermal vents of the Galapagos Rift on the ocean floor of the eastern Pacific forever changed our understanding of habitability showing that life could also arise and flourish in the complete absence of sunlight in conditions that were utterly toxic to any other life forms on Earth.

Potential Europan habitats include deep - sea colonies based on heat - loving bacteria like those found around hydrothermal vents on Earth's ocean floor.

The unusual changes in currents may help explain how the larvae of the heat - loving creatures living around hydrothermal vents are dispersed through long stretches of near - freezing waters to reach other warm havens, says Adams.

If an iPhone had the properties of amino acids and such around hydrothermal vents or boiling pools, they we would see it, but anything else and your proposal is ridiculous.

Argonaut octopus; courtesy of Cabrillo Marine Aquarium / YouTube The vast majority of octopus species live along the sea floor — whether that is in the sandy shallows off a tropical coast or in the dark depths around hydrothermal vents.

Other researchers, however, say that the fossil stromatolites were not formed by living organisms, but by physical and chemical processes around hydrothermal vents.

Map of current land and ice separating the Weddell and Ross seas, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Wutsje / CIA Octopuses have made themselves at home in most of the world's oceans — from the warmest of tropical seas to the deep, dark reaches around hydrothermal vents.

The heat and minerals around a hydrothermal vent create conditions that allow bacteria and animals to colonize the site.

This led researchers to argue that photosynthesis — and early life — evolved around hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, safe from surface radiation.

But some researchers have challenged that theory, noting that chemical activity around hydrothermal vents could produce similar structures.

Instead of squeezing through polycarbonate filters, for example, primordial vesicle - laden water might have squeezed through the pores of rocks around hydrothermal vents.

The RNA world might have been born in clay, Ferris argued, perhaps the clay that coated the ocean floor around hydrothermal vents.

At the moment, scientists have confirmed, using DNA analysis, that snotworms are closely related to the tubeworms that thrive around hydrothermal vents and probably have existed for as long as whales, if not longer.

Biologists believe that life on Earth could have started in such hot habitats sulfurous around hydrothermal vents, because the vent environment have little oxygen and harmful Solar radiation which can damage primitive molecules.

Moreover, the recent discovery of what may be the world's oldest fossil in Quebec suggests that life on Earth may have originated around hydrothermal vents.

Astrobiologists theorize that, like ancient Earth, life may have emerged around hydrothermal vents located around the moon's submerged rocky core.

At the other extreme, searing - hot ecosystems spring up around hydrothermal vents on seafloors.

1 Around Hydrothermal Vents The scalding hot, sulfur - laden waters of hydrothermal vents, where ocean water heated by magma reemerges through cracks in the seafloor, are teeming with microscopic life.

The chemotrophic bacteria that live in and around the hydrothermal vents are able to use chemical energy from the mineral - rich water.

It offers an interactive exploration of the ocean floor in and around a hydrothermal vent.