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Hidden ocean floor life blooms around deep vents
A four hundred mile west of Ecuador dive at nine thousand feet found communities of clams mussels crabs tube worms and sea urchins living off earth heat instead of sunlight. OSU oceanographer John Corliss says these unique communities may illuminate primitive life origins and sulfur-based bacteria feeding the ecosystem. The warm vent water reached about 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
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