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Gulf of Mexico 2012 Expedition
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A large lithodid crab walks over the sea floor at a cold seep site. A medium-size fish and and red crab are seen in a depression in the upper right of theimage.
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Methane bubbles seen rising from a crater on a large mound at a cold seepsite. White bacterial mat, a red crab (Chaceon quinquedens), a white squatlobster, and an eelpout are seen in the image. The eelpout can just be made out on the far side of th
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Red crabs of varying sizes are seen in the vicinity of another crater near acold seep site.
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Little Hercules is seen investigating the crater seen in image expl8285.
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The tail of a large fish is seen in the hole in the side of the crater seen inimage expl8285. To its left is an icy outcrop of methane hydrates.
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A closer view of the large fish (perhaps a cusk eel) and the methane hydratesseen in the previous image. The methane hydrates are colonized by hundredsof ice worms, the brown objectsseen throughout the readily identifiable patternof the hydrates at
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A close view of the ice worms (Hesiocaeca methanicola) populating thismethane hydrate occurrence at a cold seep site.
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A close view of the ice worms (probably Hesiocaeca methanicola) populating thismethane hydrate occurrence at a cold seep site.
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A close view of the ice worms (probably Hesiocaeca methanicola) populating thismethane hydrate occurrence at a cold seep site.
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A grenadier joins the cusk eel at this methane hydrate occurrence. Ice worms (probably Hesiocaeca methanicola) are seen associatedwith the hydrate.
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An aggregation of methane ice worms inhabiting a white methane hydrate. Studiessuggest that these worms eat chemoautotrophic bacteria that are living offchemicals in the hydrate. Ice worms are probably Hesiocaeca methanicola.
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An aggregation of methane ice worms inhabiting a white methane hydrate. Studiessuggest that these worms eat chemoautotrophic bacteria that are living offchemicals in the hydrate. Ice worms are probably Hesiocaeca methanicola.
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An aggregation of methane ice worms inhabiting a white methane hydrate. Studiessuggest that these worms eat chemoautotrophic bacteria that are living offchemicals in the hydrate. Ice worms are probably Hesiocaeca methanicola.
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An aggregation of methane ice worms inhabiting a white methane hydrate. Studiessuggest that these worms eat chemoautotrophic bacteria that are living offchemicals in the hydrate. Ice worms are probably Hesiocaeca methanicola.
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An aggregation of methane ice worms inhabiting a white methane hydrate. Studiessuggest that these worms eat chemoautotrophic bacteria that are living offchemicals in the hydrate. Ice worms are probably Hesiocaeca methanicola.
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An aggregation of methane ice worms inhabiting a white methane hydrate. Studiessuggest that these worms eat chemoautotrophic bacteria that are living offchemicals in the hydrate. Ice worms are probably Hesiocaeca methanicola.
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An aggregation of methane ice worms inhabiting a white methane hydrate. Studiessuggest that these worms eat chemoautotrophic bacteria that are living offchemicals in the hydrate. Ice worms are probably Hesiocaeca methanicola.
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An outcrop of methane hydrate
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Methane seep area with white squat lobsters and large tube worms.
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Methane seep with methane bubbles rising out of the sediment.
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