A polychaete worm that lives in whale carcasses, sunken wood, and methane seeps on the deep seafloor has been formally named, ...
Kentron, a bacterial symbiont of ciliates, turns cellular waste products into biomass. It is the first known sulfur-oxidizing symbiont to be entirely heterotrophic. Researchers from the Max Planck ...
Hydrothermal vent ecosystems represent dynamic intersections of geology, chemistry and biology on the ocean floor and in shallow coastal settings. Heated fluids rich in reduced chemicals emerge ...
A University of Sydney study reveals that sponge-dwelling bacteria break down toxic ammonia and dead algae to sustain life in ...