tiny worms that live in each of the tiny burrows

When scientists looked closer at these strange structures, they saw little worms in each of these tiny burrows. The worms graze on the bacteria growing on the surface of the methane ice. Image courtesy of Gulf of Mexico 2002, Ian MacDonald, Texas A&M University, NOAA/OER.

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