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Worms and Centipedes question: Where do tube worms live? near the beach or the ocean ... Do you eat tube worms? What do tube worms do? Were do tube worms live? Are tube worms herbivores? Are tube worms decomposers? Do giant tube worms migrate? How long can tube worms live? What do ocean tube worms eat?
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They only live for about 2days so they dont need it
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Tube Worms In Deep Sea Discovered To Have Record Long Life Spans ... Tubeworms live on the sulfide and other nutrients in the fluids at both the seeps and the vents, but they grow at much different rates in these two very different environments, according to the researchers.
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www.wildlifenews.co.uk/articles2000/feb/feb0500j.htm
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Azores, North Atlantic Ocean ... © Greenpeace / Gavin Newman ... Image ID number: 43825...
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The giant tube worm has no eyes, mouth, or stomach. ... Life In the Deep: Giant tube worms, Riftia pachyptila, live more than a mile beneath the surface of the ocean and near hydrothermal vents. They can grow up to eight feet long.
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www.csmonitor.com/2009/0217/p18s01-hfks.html
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Peering out through the sub's tiny windows, the visitors were astonished to see thickets of giant tube worms, some four feet tall. The tail ends of the worms were firmly planted on the ocean floor, while red plumes on the other ... Most of the creatures that congregate around vents live at temperatures just above freezing.
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Vent worms have no mouth or digestive tract. Instead, chemosynthetic bacteria living in their tissues provide nourishment. ... Hemoglobin (which transports hydrogen sulfide to the bacteria) makes the vent worms red. illustration Linda Huff, courtesy of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society...
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These tube worms, Riftia pachyptila, have no mouth or gut. Instead, their red plume rimmed with blood vessels reaches into the vent waters. ... As the heart pumps, these three compounds are delivered to a very specialized tissue which contains densely packed bacteria. In return for a stable environment in which to live,
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Because pogonophorans live with their lower ends buried in mud, and were broken during the dredging process, it was not until 1964 that a complete pogonophoran was recovered. It turned out that pogonophorans have a segmented posterior end of the body -- the opisthosoma -- ... Weird tube worms of the deepest seas...
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