Sentences with phrase «like deep sea vents»

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.

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Every now and then we stumble upon a new species of lemur in an obscure jungle or an exotic bacterium in a deep - sea vent, but at this point we are unlikely to discover something truly astonishing, like dinosaurs dwelling in a secluded cavern.

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

The results launched a hunt for life's origins that's now uncovering these building blocks in surprising places, like the surface of comets and in deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

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

The communities of bacteria around deep sea volcanic (hydrothermal) vents survive by converting highly toxic hydrogen sulfide into food through chemosynthesis much like surface algae convert sunlight to food via photosynthesis.