These record-breaking tube worms can survive for centuries
One deep-sea species can live more than 300 years, the longest of its kind
![Tube worms](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/072417_MT_tubeworm_main.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
GROWING OLD DOWN DEEP Tube worms near seafloor vents eat well and live long.
Courtesy of the Chemo III Project/BOEM and NOAA-OER