Life around deep sea methane seeps

If that methane ever warmed up, we'd all be f*cked.

would that be the equivalent to living on a hostile planet?

It may just look like mud, but remember, this is life that lives on METHANE.

This could be what it was like when life first formed.

Perhaps a running commentary . Or some explanation of what part is interesting and noteworthy and why it is so would be in order for lay people like me.

We too would like to find out more of why and how life is able to flourish in such depths and the unique ecology it represents.

Help us do so. Hope to see a new one soon!

sorry,i'm a science hater,so where exactuly is the methane?,i just saw dead fish....

wow all that Mud

only for people too dull to understand what they're looking at... this is spectacular!

You don't have to be dull not to understand something, you have to be ignorant to belittle someones point of view though. Way to go douchebag.

Thanks for setting me straight, will never doubt new scientist again! p.s. love your website.

Is not a fake. Look at the parallel lasers for distance and scale measurement.

When you take images from a ROV or a dredge thats the way you see the images. Of course sometimes you crash horizontaly but it's not usual.