A submerged volcano is exuding hot fluid deep below the sea off the Pacific coast of Canada, and thousands of eggs look like ravioli on its summit.
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The team anticipated cold waters near the seamount, which rises 1,100 meters above the seabed, but to their surprise, it was spewing out warm water and covered in corals. The heat and minerals in the fluid means marine producers can thrive, establishing a local food web that can support a diversity of organisms in the ocean's otherwise cold, lightless depths.
Even more surprising to the scientists was discovering a Pacific white skate nesting on the summit, 1.5 kilometers below the surface. "We were stunned to also discover the evidence of hydrothermal venting on the seamount providing warmer water to the depths," the team
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