Ecosystems of Hydrothermal Vents

Basic study on Chemosynthesis. Good job, maybe a little more on the bacteria A group of scientists were searching for hydrothermal vents in order to find more evidence on plate tectonics when they made a startling discovery. Their discovery revolutionized the way the world is viewed today and destroyed many theories that had been unchanged for many years! The discovery they made was that there was life thriving at the bottom of the ocean in a perpetual night! Not just surviving but thriving in a chemical called hydrogen sulfide that would kill any human, these organisms however are not breathing the hydrogen sulfide but they are consuming it. …