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Running Hot and Cold in the Deep Sea: Scientists Explore Rare Environment


March 6, 2012

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It's extremely rare to find hot hydrothermal vents and cold methane seeps intersecting in one place, but that's what researchers found and explored during an expedition in 2010. A description of the scientists' findings, including a large number of mysterious, undescribed species, is published in a study led by Lisa Levin of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego, in the March 7 issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.Full Story

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