The deep-sea hot-spring environment supports abundant and bizarre sea life, including tube worms, crabs, giant clams. This hot-spring "neighborhood" is at 13° N along the East Pacific Rise. (Photograph by Richard A. Lutz, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.)

"Exploring the deep ocean floor"

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