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Hydrothermal Vent Bacteria
Very hot water rushes up from the seabed carrying toxic chemicals, but animals are found there!
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Oceanographer: Dead Whales Say A Mouthful
Oceanographer Craig Smith has learned a great deal from exploring ocean graveyards. Here's his story.
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Hydrothermal Vents
Explore the Hydrothermal Vent community and learn about a little known science topic.
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The Next Frontier
We know more about the back side of the moon than we do of the ocean floor. A group of Japanese and New Zealand oceanographic scientists are attempting to rectify this oversight.
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Bowie Seamount
Oceanic and coastal marine species live around a mountaintop 25 metres below the surface of the sea.
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Marine Plant Life
Coastal plants are often large, but the most important plant food in the sea is microscopic.
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Strain 121: Life Above the Boiling Point
I thought Texas was hot when I lived there. Click above and read about an organism that defies all the rules and can live and grow at temperatures above the boiling point.
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Snowball Earth
Imagine the Earth gripped in a world-spanning ice age lasting millions of years? Science fiction? Maybe not. A look at the evidence for a "Snowball Earth".
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DNA Selective Signature of Genes
Genetic sequencing allows MIT scientists to examine natural selection through the selective signature of a gene across a range of microbial species.
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Sea Creatures 101: Underwater Worms
Worms are not only found on land. They can be found in the ocean as well! Some glow, some are resistant to extreme temperatures, and what we are learning about these worms could help us in many ways. Learn about underwater worms in this article.
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Theories of How Life Began
Theories about the first life forms tend to agree on what had to happen, but differ in their explanations of where and how. There are three strong contenders.
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Snowball Earth Part 2: The Evidence For
Imagine the Earth gripped in a world-spanning ice age lasting millions of years? Science fiction? Maybe not. Part 2 of our look at the evidence for a "Snowball Earth".
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Weathering Part 2: Chemical Weathering
The agents of weathering are powerful forces, working to breakdown the rock around us. None of these agents are more powerful those that chemically affect the rocks.
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Yellowstone National Park, Part 1
Yellowstone National Park is a product of its geology. Without the geological processes that shaped it, Yellowstone would be another mountain range.
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