AP Exclusive: Deep-sea Volcano a Hotspot for Mysterious Life

The turquoise waters became darker and darker, and squiggly glow-in-dark marine creatures began to glide past in the inky depths like ghosts. The three-man submarine went down, down, down into the abyss and drew within sight of something no human had ever laid eyes on: Cook seamount, a 13,000-foot extinct volcano at the bottom of the sea. Scientists aboard the vessel Pisces V visited the volcano earlier this month to examine its geological features and its rich variety of marine life,...

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