WIRED Science blog, April 22, 2010.
When volcanic eruptions wipe out life at hydrothermal vents, some of the new species that set up camp afterward may come from as far as 200 miles away.
“We don’t understand how they get from one vent to another,” said biological oceanographer Lauren Mullineaux of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. “But because we now see that they can move these long distances, it expands the scale of connectedness between different vents.” Read More >