love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄
February 21, 2026 at 7:51 AM
love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄
Chemosynthetic shrimp party. Someone count those for me
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 926 #Doldrums #MarineLife
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 926 #Doldrums #MarineLife
May 28, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Chemosynthetic shrimp party. Someone count those for me
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 926 #Doldrums #MarineLife
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Genuine rewrite the textbooks discovery! 🧪🦑
The same team led last year's discovery of even deeper chemosynthetic animal communities. And they are in a crewed submersible, so they actually SAW THE WHALE GRAVEYARD!!! Can't wait for them to keep exploring!
The same team led last year's discovery of even deeper chemosynthetic animal communities. And they are in a crewed submersible, so they actually SAW THE WHALE GRAVEYARD!!! Can't wait for them to keep exploring!
Finally, footage from that new whale graveyard.
The fact that fossils and fresh carcasses mix together in this spot is bonkers. But of course it makes sense, because the scavengers that live down there also need a steady supply over millions of years. They can't just suddenly adapt to the deep.
The fact that fossils and fresh carcasses mix together in this spot is bonkers. But of course it makes sense, because the scavengers that live down there also need a steady supply over millions of years. They can't just suddenly adapt to the deep.
Whale graveyard discovered 7km under the sea
YouTube video by nature video
www.youtube.com
June 10, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Genuine rewrite the textbooks discovery! 🧪🦑
The same team led last year's discovery of even deeper chemosynthetic animal communities. And they are in a crewed submersible, so they actually SAW THE WHALE GRAVEYARD!!! Can't wait for them to keep exploring!
The same team led last year's discovery of even deeper chemosynthetic animal communities. And they are in a crewed submersible, so they actually SAW THE WHALE GRAVEYARD!!! Can't wait for them to keep exploring!
Shark eggs contribute to the trophic ecology of a cold-seep chemosynthetic ecosystem
www.int-res.com
March 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Shark eggs contribute to the trophic ecology of a cold-seep chemosynthetic ecosystem
New paper and a deep-sea surprise: methane seepage on the Molloy Ridge is forming gas hydrate mounds 3,640 m down—way deeper than most known hydrate seeps! These mounds host thriving chemosynthetic communities (tubeworms, snails, amphipods). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 8, 2026 at 2:51 PM
New paper and a deep-sea surprise: methane seepage on the Molloy Ridge is forming gas hydrate mounds 3,640 m down—way deeper than most known hydrate seeps! These mounds host thriving chemosynthetic communities (tubeworms, snails, amphipods). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amazing!
- deepsea bacteria take up methane, oxidize carbon
- sea spiders FARM the bacteria on THEIR OWN BODY (like yeti crabs)
- the sea spiders eat the bacteria as part of the chemosynthetic food chain
- methane from the seeps doesn't get into the atmosphere 🧪🦑
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
- deepsea bacteria take up methane, oxidize carbon
- sea spiders FARM the bacteria on THEIR OWN BODY (like yeti crabs)
- the sea spiders eat the bacteria as part of the chemosynthetic food chain
- methane from the seeps doesn't get into the atmosphere 🧪🦑
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Feast on some recent deep sea news & discoveries, like a sea spider covered in methane-fueled bacteria.
🌊🦑🌏🧪
@nicoledubilier.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/s...
🌊🦑🌏🧪
@nicoledubilier.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/s...
First methane-powered sea spiders found crawling on the ocean floor | CNN
Scientists on the US West Coast say they discovered three previously unknown species of deep-sea spider that could have a rare diet fueled by a common greenhouse gas.
www.cnn.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Amazing!
- deepsea bacteria take up methane, oxidize carbon
- sea spiders FARM the bacteria on THEIR OWN BODY (like yeti crabs)
- the sea spiders eat the bacteria as part of the chemosynthetic food chain
- methane from the seeps doesn't get into the atmosphere 🧪🦑
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
- deepsea bacteria take up methane, oxidize carbon
- sea spiders FARM the bacteria on THEIR OWN BODY (like yeti crabs)
- the sea spiders eat the bacteria as part of the chemosynthetic food chain
- methane from the seeps doesn't get into the atmosphere 🧪🦑
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
“It’s like finding a rainforest no one knew about.” At 5,800 metres below the waves, scientists have uncovered one of the largest ecosystems of ‘chemosynthetic life’: organisms that survive without sunlight, drawing energy instead from chemicals in the seabed. buff.ly/f8DP58D
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Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature
The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy…
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August 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“It’s like finding a rainforest no one knew about.” At 5,800 metres below the waves, scientists have uncovered one of the largest ecosystems of ‘chemosynthetic life’: organisms that survive without sunlight, drawing energy instead from chemicals in the seabed. buff.ly/f8DP58D
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Yes, Virginia, the Yeti is real, he's a crab, and his hairy crab arms are covered with chemosynthetic bacteria that are also his only food.
Also, he lives in near-freezing waters of the deep ocean, but only in the parts that are near-boiling near volcanic vents.
What's new with you?
Also, he lives in near-freezing waters of the deep ocean, but only in the parts that are near-boiling near volcanic vents.
What's new with you?
Let's learn about Kiwa hirsuta, the yeti crab.
Discovered in 2005 by researchers on the DSV Alvin while exploring hydrothermal vents in the South Pacific. They named it 'yeti crab' for the distinctive white 'fur' covering the limbs.
(📷: A. Fifis, MBARI)
Discovered in 2005 by researchers on the DSV Alvin while exploring hydrothermal vents in the South Pacific. They named it 'yeti crab' for the distinctive white 'fur' covering the limbs.
(📷: A. Fifis, MBARI)
June 12, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Yes, Virginia, the Yeti is real, he's a crab, and his hairy crab arms are covered with chemosynthetic bacteria that are also his only food.
Also, he lives in near-freezing waters of the deep ocean, but only in the parts that are near-boiling near volcanic vents.
What's new with you?
Also, he lives in near-freezing waters of the deep ocean, but only in the parts that are near-boiling near volcanic vents.
What's new with you?
Shark eggs contribute to the trophic ecology of a cold-seep chemosynthetic ecosystem. 🦑🧪🐟🦈
doi.org/10.3354/meps...
doi.org/10.3354/meps...
March 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Shark eggs contribute to the trophic ecology of a cold-seep chemosynthetic ecosystem. 🦑🧪🐟🦈
doi.org/10.3354/meps...
doi.org/10.3354/meps...
A chemosynthetic ecosystem — cold seeps fueling life here at 1,655 meters was discovered by the #DeepWonders science team, led by @divaamon.bsky.social, in Trinidad & Tobago. Read more about how they found it in the caption: youtube.com/shorts/waLnV...
August 14, 2026 at 8:14 PM
A chemosynthetic ecosystem — cold seeps fueling life here at 1,655 meters was discovered by the #DeepWonders science team, led by @divaamon.bsky.social, in Trinidad & Tobago. Read more about how they found it in the caption: youtube.com/shorts/waLnV...
you dropped this king (chemosynthetic animals)
July 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
you dropped this king (chemosynthetic animals)
Nature research paper: Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches
go.nature.com/3H1Dg1f
go.nature.com/3H1Dg1f
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature
The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy sources sustaining hadal fauna.
go.nature.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Nature research paper: Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches
go.nature.com/3H1Dg1f
go.nature.com/3H1Dg1f
Deepest-ever lifeforms found. Chinese scientists have discovered thriving chemosynthetic ecosystems, powered not by sunlight but by chemicals like methane and hydrogen sulphide, at depths of up to 9.5 km in the Pacific Ocean. buff.ly/AkPTN6x
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Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature
The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy…
www.nature.com
August 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Deepest-ever lifeforms found. Chinese scientists have discovered thriving chemosynthetic ecosystems, powered not by sunlight but by chemicals like methane and hydrogen sulphide, at depths of up to 9.5 km in the Pacific Ocean. buff.ly/AkPTN6x
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(1/10) The Dragon Nematode is the first of its kind to be described from chemosynthetic environments.
www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te...
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#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #deepsea
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March 19, 2026 at 12:21 AM
(1/10) The Dragon Nematode is the first of its kind to be described from chemosynthetic environments.
www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te...
@willetal.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social
#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #deepsea
www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te...
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#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #deepsea
An incredible discovery that challenges our assumptions about how complex life can thrive in the deepest and more remote places in the ocean.
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature
The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy sources...
www.nature.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
An incredible discovery that challenges our assumptions about how complex life can thrive in the deepest and more remote places in the ocean.
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Now I need a "Save the chemosynthetic tube worms” sticker
January 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Now I need a "Save the chemosynthetic tube worms” sticker
This is a gorgeous cover and an even cooler paper - a full phylogenetic tree using BUSCO genes, featuring new genomes for some weirdos including chitons, the watering-pot shell, a tusk shell, a symbiotically chemosynthetic mud clam, the Chilean abalone (not an abalone), and *two* monoplacophorans! 🧪
[New Paper] is on the COVER of @science.org !!
FIRST genome-phylogeny of MOLLUSCS (snails, clams, octopus, etc.) complete with ALL classes —incl. the mythical "living fossil" Monoplacophora— reveals how they evolved the most diverse body forms of all animals!
OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
FIRST genome-phylogeny of MOLLUSCS (snails, clams, octopus, etc.) complete with ALL classes —incl. the mythical "living fossil" Monoplacophora— reveals how they evolved the most diverse body forms of all animals!
OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
March 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is a gorgeous cover and an even cooler paper - a full phylogenetic tree using BUSCO genes, featuring new genomes for some weirdos including chitons, the watering-pot shell, a tusk shell, a symbiotically chemosynthetic mud clam, the Chilean abalone (not an abalone), and *two* monoplacophorans! 🧪
youtu.be/1LrcTa0dDmw?... highly recommended
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
youtu.be/1LrcTa0dDmw?... highly recommended
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌎🦑
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature
The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy…
www.nature.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌎🦑
The @nature.com paper describing their findings is here.
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature
The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy sources...
www.nature.com
August 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The @nature.com paper describing their findings is here.
Originalpublikation: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Host-Microbe Interactions in the Chemosynthetic Riftia pachyptila Symbiosis | mBio
All animals are associated with microorganisms; hence, host-microbe interactions are
of fundamental importance for life on earth. However, we know little about the molecular
basis of these interaction...
journals.asm.org
March 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Originalpublikation: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
*If there are live bugs swimming in the dark inside there, and also they live off chemosynthetic Jupiter radiation, that's gonna be severely weird
New hope* for exolife on Europa.
*well, okay, computer modelling
*well, okay, computer modelling
Study suggests pathway for life-sustaining conditions in Europa’s ocean
A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ocean of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons and a leading candidate for extr...
www.eurekalert.org
January 21, 2026 at 9:51 AM
*If there are live bugs swimming in the dark inside there, and also they live off chemosynthetic Jupiter radiation, that's gonna be severely weird
#PublicationAlert! A recent paper describes seven new species of Lepidonotopodini #scaleworms from deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems, including some samples collected by #EVNautilus in the #Galapagos in 2015. Read it in Marine Biodiversity here: bit.ly/4ofrhws
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
#PublicationAlert! A recent paper describes seven new species of Lepidonotopodini #scaleworms from deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems, including some samples collected by #EVNautilus in the #Galapagos in 2015. Read it in Marine Biodiversity here: bit.ly/4ofrhws
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches - Nature
The discovery of chemosynthesis-based benthic communities at depths of 5,800 m to 9,533 m in the Kuril–Kamchatka and western Aleutian trenches challenges traditional perspectives on the energy sources...
www.nature.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
Preprint alert 🔔 Organosulfur compounds support carbon and energy metabolism in chemosynthetic symbiosis. Happy to see this cool collaboration with @organosulfur.bsky.social and others out 🥳
New preprint!
We explore how gutless marine worms and their bacterial symbionts use organosulfur compounds like DMSP and DMS - key molecules in marine sulfur cycling.
Our results show that these compounds support carbon and energy metabolism in the Olavius algarvensis symbiosis.
We explore how gutless marine worms and their bacterial symbionts use organosulfur compounds like DMSP and DMS - key molecules in marine sulfur cycling.
Our results show that these compounds support carbon and energy metabolism in the Olavius algarvensis symbiosis.
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Preprint alert 🔔 Organosulfur compounds support carbon and energy metabolism in chemosynthetic symbiosis. Happy to see this cool collaboration with @organosulfur.bsky.social and others out 🥳