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Tiny tubes built as housing by serpulid tube-worms were clustered in asmall forest-like grove on one of the rocks collected. These tubes are about aquarter inch long and are shown here as viewed through a dissectingmicroscope on board the ship. (Image credit: Islands in the Stream Expedition 2002. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration | Leslie Sauter)