1.   Despite the complete lack of sunlight, bacterial colonies bloomed around Axial, feeding on volcanic chemicals like hydrogen sulfide, and tube worms arrived seemingly from nowhere.

2.   Despite that, tube worms appear to be the fastest-growing of all marine invertebrates, the scientists report.

3.   Now it is known to teem with eels, fishes, squids, octopuses, sharks, rays, crabs, tube worms and all manner of gelatinous creatures.

4.   Scientists have discovered unique plants and animals, such as the tube worm, living near seeps in the oil and gas formations deep underwater.

5.   The otherworldly fauna included giant clams and fields of tube worms.

6.   The tube worms had no eyes, no mouths and no obvious means of locomotion or ingestion.

7.   Ballard also reported finding concentrations of tube worms and beds of clams surrounding the vents.