These tube worms live between 1000 and 3300 metres below sea level in aggregations from five to more than 200 individuals around cold seeps. This environment also provides a habitat for ...

Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey are investigating seeps about 40 miles off the coast of Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. A cold seep ... popped out. The worms have previously been found ...

Since then, smaller tube worms have been found at seafloor cold seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, but until this discovery, they had not been observed at vents in the Atlantic.

You see, down at the bottom of the ocean, it's dark and cold, and there just isn't much to eat in the conventional sense. So here's how tube worms manage ... the oil deposit seep upward into ...

Cold seeps can provide homes to toxic waters like ... but we did encounter beds of mussels and fields of tube worms that have adapted to life in this extreme habitat by processing seep gases ...

In the perpetual darkness, cold and relentless pressures of the ... Some of these bacteria reside inside the elongated bodies of giant tube worms (Riftia pachyptila). These worms, whose exposed ...

NOAA encountered the worms at 1.25 miles deep in a spot where temperatures are 35 degrees and it’s 2,800 pounds of pressure per square inch. Scientists were in the area looking for a cold seep ...