A cold seep (sometimes called a cold vent) is an area of the ocean floor where seepage of fluids rich in hydrogen sulfide, methane, and other hydrocarbons...

as occurs in chemosynthetic archaea found near hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. The aphotic zone can be subdivided into three different vertical regions...

seep is a place where natural liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons escape to the Earth's atmosphere and surface, normally under low pressure or flow. Seeps...

/ 44.48333°N 125.06667°W / 44.48333; -125.06667 Pythia's Oasis is a cold seep on the ocean floor 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of Newport, Oregon,...

marine snow, whale falls, and chemosynthesis at hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. Prior to the 19th century scientists assumed life was sparse in the deep...

The cold-seep-1 RNA motif is a conserved RNA structure that was discovered by bioinformatics. Cold-seep-1 motif RNAs are found in environmental DNA samples...

species of tube worms in the family Siboglinidae. It lives at deep-sea cold seeps where hydrocarbons (oil and methane) are leaking out of the seafloor....

returns to the surface at the oceanic trench, producing mud volcanoes and cold seeps. These support unique biomes based on chemotrophic microorganisms. There...

gastropods and other epifauna similar to those found in hydrothermal and cold seep environments elsewhere. The Laurentian Fan plays a geographic role in...

which lives on methane clathrate deposits. Lamellibrachia luymesi is a cold seep tube worm that reaches lengths of over 3 m and may be the most long-lived...