Hydrothermal vents are some of the most extreme environments on the planet. But in 2000, scientists discovered a vent unlike any other, one that spews white smoke and is 10 times older. And some think it may help us understand how all...

Japanese and US scientists working from the Japanese R/V Yokosuka have found a species of clam near low-temperature vents in the Mariana Trench. The clams live at a depth of 5,620 meters in a subduction zone near vents where...