The Artful Amoeba
When You Think “Hydrothermal Vents”, You Shouldn’t Think “Tube Worms”
January 4th, 2012 |
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In 1977, scientists and the world were shocked to discover the first deep-sea hydrothermal vent community at the Galapagos Rift in the eastern Pacific (see a great story on this at NPR here). At this site, chimneys spewing black, superheated and chemically supersaturated water towered over fields of blood-red tube worms encased in white sheaths, [...]
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