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Colony of tubeworms being sustained by methane seeps.

Colony of tubeworms being sustained by methane seeps.
Colony of tubeworms being sustained by methane seeps.
Colony of tubeworms being sustained by methane seeps.
Colony of tubeworms being sustained by methane seeps.
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Colony of tubeworms being sustained by methane seeps.
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01/01/2003
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 42, No. 2, Pg. 69:
FED BY METHANE, LIFE FLOURISHES—Methane seeping from the seafloor sustains microbes that serve as the base of the food chain for communities of animals, like these tubeworms, which thrive in the sunless depths in the Gulf of Mexico.
Courtesy of Jean Whelan
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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