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tube worm

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tube worm
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various polychaete worms that construct and live in a tube made of sand, lime, etc.


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Turtles in the Sea of Cortez have been observed feeding on tube worms, sea hares, jellyfish and other slow-moving, soft-bodied sea creatures.
Photosynthesis of carbon dioxide by plankton and terrestrial plants was thought to be the basis of all organic life until 1977, when scientists aboard a deep-diving submarine off the Galapagos Islands discovered sulfurous hot-water vents 8,000 feet below the surface colonized by giant tube worms, clams, white crabs and other animals that contain sulfur-burning bacteria, which provide an alternative basis for sustaining life.
The corals are dead and covered in small tube worms.
 
 
 
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