For the giant tube worm, this answer comes in the form of bacteria.

It is often found near colonies of giant tube worms.

One example for which scientists do have an explanation is the giant tube worm.

The following habitats are found across the Giant tube worm distribution range.

Like their cool water relatives, giant tube worms do not have a digestive tract.

The otherworldly animals found in this environment included giant tube worms and clams.

Giant tube worms have unusual hemoglobins that allow them to live in extraordinary environments.

Giant tube worms grow to over 2 metres long and inhabit the hot waters around...

These are related to giant tube worms.

Parts of the mat looked somewhat like giant tube worms, such as those found deep in undersea vents on Earth.

Scientists haven't been able to explain deep-sea gigantism, with the exception of the giant tube worm.

They support giant tube worms, clams and shrimp, and many other eukaryotes.

Giant tube worms use bacteria in their trophosome to react hydrogen sulfide with oxygen as a source of energy.

Hydrogen sulfide near hydrothermal vents can be utilized by organisms such as the giant tube worm.

Biologically, these findings indicate that the giant tube worm is probably the fastest-growing invertebrate organism on earth."

Despite the fact that Kuphus polythalamia is now known to be a mollusc, its common name is the giant tube worm.

Giant tube worms are annelids.

These bacteria are capable of chemosynthesis and live inside of the giant tube worm, which lives on hydrothermal vents.

Trophosome is an organ found in the coelomic cavity of the giant tube worm, Riftia pachyptila.

The species Riftia pachyptila (giant tube worm)

Powered by the earth's inner heats rather than sunlight, these dark ecosystems are often surprisingly lush, with riots of giant tube worms and other strange life.

"There were clams about 14 inches across, similarly oversize mussels and the worms, which they referred to as giant tube worms.

Lamellibrachia is a genus of tube worms related to the giant tube worm, Riftia pachyptila.

Chemosynthetic archaea form the base of the food chain, supporting diverse organisms, including giant tube worms, clams, limpets and shrimp.

For example, there are giant tube worms (Riftia pachyptila) 1.5m in length and clams (Calyptogena magnifica) 30 cm long.

Larval dispersal potential of the tubeworm Riftia pachyptila at deep-sea hydrothermal vents.

Trophosome is an organ found in the coelomic cavity of the giant tube worm, Riftia pachyptila.

Lamellibrachia is a genus of tube worms related to the giant tube worm, Riftia pachyptila.

A more recent study of three species of tubeworms including Riftia pachyptila demonstrated that the bacteria actually infect juvenile worms through their skin.

(The species) Riftia pachyptila (a.k.a. giant tube worm)

For example, there are giant tube worms (Riftia pachyptila) 1.5m in length and clams (Calyptogena magnifica) 30 cm long.

Since 1981 however, the name "giant tube worm" has also been applied to the hydrothermal vent species Riftia pachyptila, which is indeed a worm, an annelid.

As a graduate student, Cavanaugh was the first to propose that the giant tube worm, Riftia pachyptila, obtains its food from bacteria living within its cells.

One of the most striking occurrences and uses of hemoglobin in organisms is in the giant tube worm (Riftia pachyptila, also called Vestimentifera), which can reach 2.4 meters length and populates ocean volcanic vents.

'Giant tube worms', 'Riftia pachyptila', are ocean invertebrates in the phylum (biology) Annelida (formerly grouped in phylum Pogonophora and Vestimentifera) related to tubeworms commonly found in the foreshore and pelagic zones.