Sentences with phrase «foot tube worms»

Brightly colored 7 - foot tube worms thrive near deep - sea hydrothermal vents and derive their energy from chemosynthetic bacteria.

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Bacteria, which feed on methane and other noxious chemicals, provide sustenance for three - foot - long hollow tube worms and tiny clams.

Two years ago, in a kind of crater off the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 10,000 feet down, a team led by Myriam Sibuet of the French Research Institute for Ocean Exploitation, discovered a spectacular cold seep with a vast field of clams and mussels, blue shrimp, purple sea cucumbers, and six - foot - long tube worms growing in bushes next to mounds of gas hydrate.

Clustered there, on the midocean ridge near the Galápagos Islands, were giant clams and mussels and six - foot - long tube worms, anchored to the ground and sticking upright.