Sentences with phrase «like tube worms»

Biologists were surprised to discover that the ecosystems found on the ocean floor along these mid-ocean ridges, consisting of complex organisms like tube worms, clams, and crabs, were dependent for their food on thermophilic chemosynthetic bacteria, which produced organic compounds using the oxidation of inorganic molecules as an energy source, instead of sunlight.

Last, when only the skeleton is left, microbes eat the bone lipids, animals like tube worms live off them, and the zombie worms eat on.

Not exact matches

Its mechanical body sits inside a plastic tube reel that extends through pressurized inflation, a method that some invertebrates like peanut worms (Sipunculus nudus) also use to extend their appendages.

Attached like a little wiggly worm at the beginning of the large intestine, the 2 - to 4 - inch - long blind - ended tube seems to have no effect on digestion, so biologists have long been stumped about its purpose.

So hot was the vent water — 403 degrees C — that many of the previous inhabitants, like the giant tube worms, had been baked to death.

One such group, the siphonostomes, are tiny flea - like copepods who live directly on the tubes of the giant worms.

July 28, 2017 - Sporting names like the Indigo Tube Worms, Ultra Violet Sloths and Orange Chicken, teams of student summer interns matched wits against each other and competitors at Los Alamos National Laboratory and San Jose City College in a series of «capture the flag» challenges that tested their knowledge of...

Looking like very tiny snails, these are actually worm tubes belonging to the serpulid worms.