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Something Just Went BEZERK in the Gulf of Mexico. The US Navy just sunk a French Submarine
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[quote:SR37:MV8xMTEzNTg2XzIwMDkxNDQzX0FGOTUyMzQ0] Possibly visited this before, haven't been able to keep up like I want... Has anyone seen these "Methane worms?" http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/ucl-views/0902/methaneworm This might possibly be the ugliest life-form on planet Earth, but it is certainly one of the most exotic. The photograph here shows a kind of polychaete worm discovered only a decade ago in the cold, dark depths of the sea-floor in the Gulf of Mexico. Swarms of these worms were seen chewing their way into mounds of ‘methane clathrate’ - a type of ice that forms under conditions of high pressure and low temperature. The cage-like structure of this ice traps molecules of methane gas. But these astounding animals don’t just burrow into the mounds for protection, they are actually eating the methane itself, metabolising the trapped gas to power their cells. This was the first example ever discovered on Earth of a complex organism - a worm about an inch long - that can survive on something as simple as methane, without needing to eat the organic molecules such as sugars and proteins that human life depends on. [/quote]
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