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00:10 It's difficult for me to describe how I feel because I feel so grateful and so lucky.
00:17 We made a discovery even better than what I was expecting.
00:20 This is a real discovery that will change, I'm sure, our view on life events.
00:27 We want to understand how animals travel, how they disperse.
00:32 We look for the first time into the subsurface life.
00:35 Animals are able to live below hydrothermal vents, and this is, I think, mind-blowing.
00:40 Now we know that, for example, tubeworms, they can colonize vents by traveling through the subsurface.
00:48 This is the first finding.
00:50 We know that these tubeworms, they can live in this cave system.
00:53 That's the second finding.
00:55 And the third finding is that also the mobile fauna, mobile vent fauna, can live in these subsurface areas.
01:03 The beauty of all of this is also that the experiment itself was not even working so well.
01:11 We kind of needed to be creative and, you know, apply basically a new method.
01:16 Flipping around the rocks opened our view into the underworld of hydrothermal vents.
01:23 Oh!
01:25 Whoa!
01:27 Behold!
01:28 That was a power move right there.
01:33 What we found was that we found even animals living below the surface.
01:39 And this is basically subsurface vents that can be potentially quite extensive.
01:46 Look at that. There's a tubeworm, a little tube here.
01:49 They're everywhere. It's our proof, basically.
01:53 Yes.
01:55 Nice.
01:57 And when you see researchers that really, like, spend their whole life studying this system,
02:02 and that they are, like, so happy because they still discover something new, this was like, wow, goosebumps.
02:13 Oceans constitute 70% of Earth's surface and more than 90% of Earth's biosphere.
02:20 By understanding all these small parts of the ocean, we can then see the bigger picture.
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