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

Methane seeps are vents in the ocean floor teeming with bacteria and other microbes that feed off the gases being released, according to Benjamin Grupe, a biological oceanography graduate student ...

The K-Lander observatory -- where state-of-the-art technology meets science. A new study presents a unique time series collected by the K-Lander from two distinct methane seepage sites offshore ...

In 2023, scientists from the Occidental College of Los Angeles collected 36 specimens of sea spider living near methane seeps along the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska. Upon examining the ...

With the help of methane-munching-microbes, these translucent sea spiders gobble up a potent greenhouse gas to stay alive.

Methane-Carbon Flow into the Benthic Food Web at Cold Seeps – A Case Study from the Costa Rica Subduction Zone. PLoS ONE , 2013; 8 (10): e74894 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074894 Cite This Page : ...

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 ...

She also aims to enhance the precision of very high-resolution satellite imagery for monitoring Adélie penguin colonies in ...

Methane seeps from near a mound covered with deep-sea mussels at a depth of 4,600 feet in the Atlantic Ocean just south of Norfolk Canyon off Virginia. NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program ...

Until a few years ago, researchers had only documented 200 methane seeps off the Pacific Northwest coast. "Methane is a greenhouse gas," Embley said during an interview with members of the joint ...

Seep mounds are carbonate deposits, often hosting unique fauna, which form at sites of methane leakage into the seafloor. Over 130 were found covering over 10,000 square kilometers of the ...

Melting glaciers in Greenland are unleashing hidden methane and shifting soils from carbon sinks to warming sources.