Since their discovery in 1977, hydrothermal vent communities have provided many surprises
about life in the deep sea and in extreme environments. It has been suggested that vent …

Hydrocarbon seeps and hydrothermal vents are now known to be common at continental
margins and oceanic spreading centers worldwide, exuding fluids rich in CH4 and H2S, and …

Gastropods are one of the most important groups of organisms adapted to chemosynthesis-
based communities. A list of gastropod occurrences in ancient hydrocarbon seeps is …

Adaptive radiations present fascinating opportunities for studying the evolutionary process.
Most cases come from isolated lakes or islands, where unoccupied ecological space is filled …

Authigenic carbonate minerals can preserve biosignatures of microbial anaerobic oxidation
of methane (AOM) in the rock record. It is not currently known whether the microorganisms …

Though not directly dependent on photosynthesis, deep-sea chemosynthetic communities
have not been sheltered from catastrophic changes affecting Earth's photic zone. Instead …

Seventy-five fossil chemosynthetic assemblages of Cretaceous to Holocene age have been
discovered in Japan; many are interpreted to have been cold seep dependent and one is …

One of the main limitations to understanding the evolutionary history of hydrothermal vent
and cold seep communities is the identification of tube fossils from ancient deposits. Tube …

Late Albian deep-water sediments of the Black Flysch Group in the Basque-Cantabrian
Basin (western Pyrenees) preserve a fossil pockmark field including methane seep …

A review of the fossil record of vesicomyid bivalves from the North Pacific region (Hokkaido,
Japan; Alaska and Washington, USA) allows the clarification of the status of several species …