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Tubeworm colony at Galapagos Rift.

Tubeworm colony at Galapagos Rift.
Tubeworm colony at Galapagos Rift.
Tubeworm colony at Galapagos Rift.
Tubeworm colony at Galapagos Rift.
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Tubeworm colony at Galapagos Rift.
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11/18/2005
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 51, No. 1, pg. 4 timeline:
1977: Scientists in Alvin at the Galápagos Rift explored previously unknown and unexpected communities of deep-sea organisms that thrive in the absence of sunlight, sustained not by photosynthesis but by chemosynthesis. The discovery transformed conceptions of how and where life can exist.
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