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ENERGY BURST. Normally buried deep in marine sediment, hydrates occasionally burst through the ocean floor. This outcrop of gas hydrate comes from a water depth of 540 meters in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists suspect that burrowing ice worms (Hesiocaeca methanicola) graze on bacteria that colonize the hydrate. Credit: I. MacDonald/Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi
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