Life at Vents & Seeps
“Nothing Could Diminish the Excitement Of Seeing the Animals for the First Time”
The scientists who made the surprising discovery of teeming life around hydrothermal vents of the Galápagos Rift in 1977 were geologists and geochemists. They had not expected to find spectacular colonies of previously unknown, large animals on the deep seafloor.
Marine Snow and Fecal Pellets
Until about 130 years ago, scholars believed that no life could exist in the deep…