Sentences with phrase «including tubeworms»

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These seeps support an entirely different community of animals, including anemones, tubeworms in the genera Lamellibrachia and Escarpia, and broad, white mats of bacteria.

Others are free - living and may be found growing on many different surfaces, including rocks, tubeworm tubes and other animals, and even inside chimneys.

By means that are not entirely understood, the tubeworm provides all the chemicals necessary for the bacteria to make food, including sulfur, oxygen, and carbon dioxide, and the bacteria manufacture sugars or some other form of energy - rich molecules that provide nutrition to the tubeworm.

The vents exist on the seafloor as much as 1.5 miles below the surface and support a rich ecosystem that includes fish, shrimp, tubeworms, mussels, crabs and clams.