Not exact matches
A doomed
worm (shown second) dosed with toxin but without the antidote gene forms
only bits of a
tube, partially visible through its body, and can't feed.
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.
Some 75 kilometers away in the same gulf, vents within the Alarcon Rise also hosted masses of
tube worms,
only they were blood - red in color.