Sentences with phrase «thrive 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.
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Mars is thought to have contained oceans with similar conditions to those near hydrothermal vents at around the same time the fossils were thriving, living creatures.
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.