Hydrothermal fluid – oceanbites

Ecology

Hydrothermal vent fluids support an intriguing food web, and unicellular protistan predators play an outsized role.

Hydrothermal vents are hot, dark, and toxic environments. But to sulfur oxidizing bacteria, they're home.

Wouldn’t it be wicked cool if scientists could overcome the obstacle of power limitation by plugging their instruments directly into…