Scientists have discovered a giant field of hydrothermal vents towering as high over the seabed as a four story building and spewing plumes of hot liquid near the Galápagos Islands.
A research team was on a 30-day expedition off the coast of Ecuador when they detected clusters of ancient chimneys dotted along a 2,000-foot (600 m) stretch of seabed on the western edge of an underwater volcano called Los Huellos East, according to a statement that the Schmidt Ocean Institute shared with Live Science.
