Sentences with phrase «from deep sea vents»

«Microbial diversity is found everywhere from deep sea vents to the human gut or in association with plant roots.

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We started finding the same organisms that people were reporting from deep - sea hydrothermal vents [where hot, mineral - laden fluid flows through volcanic rock into the ocean from deep within the Earth].

In fact, wherever you find life on Earth, from boiling hot vents deep under the sea to frozen bacteria in the clouds high above the planet, you find this sequence.

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.

Bacteria and archaea — collectively known as prokaryotes — live pretty much everywhere, dividing happily in places from stomach acid to deep - sea vents.

Although bacteria live almost everywhere, from some 40 miles high in the atmosphere to deep - sea vents, 94 percent of them live in the top 1,300 feet of Earth's surface.

McKay has visited the Geysir — from which the term geyser originated — multiple times to understand how geysers and deep - sea vents might affect life.

But in an Opinion paper published June 16 in Trends in Cell Biology, researchers propose that new genomic evidence derived from a deep - sea vent on the ocean floor suggests that the molecular machinery essential to eukaryotic life was probably borrowed, little by little over time, from those simpler ancestors.

The sub brought up a rib from the mammoth carcass, and the researchers soon discovered the fiery plumes to be the gills of two entirely new species, related to worms, that live near deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

Deep - sea gastropods, like snails and mussels, have been found hundreds of kilometers from their native vents.

The gas can originate from lakes and swamps, natural - gas pipelines, deep - sea vents, and livestock.

Brightly colored 7 - foot tube worms thrive near deep - sea hydrothermal vents and derive their energy from chemosynthetic bacteria.

In 2009, scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution embarked on a NASA - funded mission to the Mid-Cayman Rise in the Caribbean, in search of a type of deep - sea hot - spring or hydrothermal vent that they believed held clues to the search for life on other planets.

Common in Precambrian Shield rocks — the oldest rocks on Earth — the ancient waters have a chemistry similar to that found near deep sea vents, suggesting these waters can support microbes living in isolation from the surface.

A mysterious glow from deep - sea hydrothermal vents may provide the light source for a newly - discovered bacterium.

Glover hypothesizes that young, prehistoric tubeworms may have been traveling from one deep - sea vent to another when they came across the carcass of a marine animal.

Shannon notes that most of the inspiration for the appearance of aliens in Hollywood science fiction movies comes from places like deep sea vents, which are home to everything from giant bone - eating worms to «rainbow glitter» jellyfish.

By Year 1.1 billion, deep - sea hematite - bearing rock found in the Marble Bar chert formation of northwestern Australia indicates that iron - rich water gushed from volcanically heated seafloor vents were able to mix with cooler oxygen - rich seawater (Ohmoto et al, Nature Geoscience, March 15, 2009; PSU press release, and in EurkaAlert; and Sid Perkins, ScienceNews, April 11, 2009).

Specific enrichment of hyperthermophilic electroactive Archaea from deep - sea hydrothermal vent on electrically conductive support — Guillaume Pillot — Bioresource Technology

Deep - sea skates, relatives of sharks and rays, were discovered laying their eggs adjacent to hot water from hydrothermal vents.

These oceans can be kept warm despite their great distance from the Sun because of gravitational interactions between the moons and their host planet, and they might support the kind of life found in deep sea vents on Earth.

At Champagne Reef, gasses escaping from deep volcanic vents filter through the sea floor to envelop snorkelers in streams of effervescent bubbles.

David traveled to the west coast to study the recently discovered deep - sea hydrothermal vents and received his PhD in marine biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

Scientists are in the early stages of building a fiber optic network on the seafloor for observing, in real time, deep - sea hydrothermal vents — places where super-heated water and minerals spew from Earth's crust offering clues about how life on the planet may have began.

It is notable that the deep - sea vent ecosystems recently described from the Arctic also show an absence of vent shrimp and vent mussels [12].

Lesson 1 - Plate Tectonics Lesson 2 - Mid-Ocean Ridges Lesson 3 - Deep - Sea Corals Lesson 4 - Subduction Zones Lesson 5 - Chemosynthesis and Hydrothermal Vent Life Lesson 6 - Deep - Sea Benthos Lesson 7 - Water Cycle Lesson 8 - Ocean Currents Lesson 9 - Ocean Waves Lesson 10 - Tides Lesson 11 - Energy from the Oceans Lesson 12 - Food, Water, and Medicine from the Sea Lesson 13 - Hurricanes Lesson 14 - Seamounts An average of 2,000 strong earthquakes and large volcanic eruptions occur every year all around the world.

In a recent expedition near Antartica, researchers from Oxford discovered dozens of remarkable new species thriving in one of the most extreme environments on the planet, alongside deep - sea hydrothermal vents where temperatures can reach over 750F.