00:00Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean is a world that looks like it belongs on another planet.
00:04Around Axial Seamount, scorching hydrothermal vents release mineral-rich fluids into freezing
00:11darkness and, somehow, life thrives there.
00:16Giant tube worms, crabs, bacteria and other strange creatures build entire ecosystems
00:23without sunlight.
00:24But when Axial erupts, lava can bury these communities beneath fresh volcanic rock.
00:30It sounds like the end, but months later, new cracks appear, hot fluids return and life
00:38begins colonising the new rock.
00:41This volcano doesn't just destroy an ecosystem, it resets it.
