Scientists discovered three new species of sea spiders that live near the ocean floor and feast on bacteria that convert ...

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

Nature finds a way. Even in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, life figures out how to not only survive but flourish.

Biology professor Shana Goffredi calls these new curious creatures “extremely adorable” — although arachnophobes may disagree.

Spider-like creatures living near methane seeps on the seafloor appear to cultivate and consume microbial species on their bodies that feed on the energy-rich gas. This expands the set of organisms ...

Scientists discover sea spiders living off methane-eating bacteria in deep-sea seeps, revealing new species and unique symbiotic survival strategies ...

The Lasuen Knoll methane seep off the coast of Southern California as photographed in 2021. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute “These seeps host an amazing array of microbial processes that we are still ...

Methane seeps are areas of the seafloor where methane gas escapes the Earth's crust, bubbling up to form flourishing microbial ecosystems in the absence of sunlight.

If the dark bottom of the ocean is like a desert, methane seeps are oases, nourishing a diversity of creatures. Seid went down there twice in a submersible. The biologists named it Alvin.

Off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica sits a deep-sea chimera of an ecosystem. Jacó Scar is a methane seep, where the gas escapes from sediment into the seawater, but the seep isn’t cold like the ...

Every day, methane gas seeps from Pacific Northwest landfills and it's estimated about 30% of today’s global warming is driven by methane. Heather Kuoppamaki, senior environmental engineer at ...

The installation cost the company $8 million, equivalent to around $25 million in 2023. Methane from the platform and the seep tents were piped into the Southern California gas supply.