The Incredible Shrinking Cups: on the absence of giant tube worms

Posted on By Andrew Thaler
Science

It’s true! There are no giant tube worms (Riftia pachyptila) at the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center (but there are smaller tube worms).

No Tubes.
No Tubes.

What all this about?

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