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Scientists discover massive new creatures living in the Earth's oceanic crust

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Researchers from Schmidt Ocean Institute used submersible equipment to explore the depths of the Pacific Ocean .

They found enormous adult worms up to three metres long inhabiting caverns inside the ocean crust beneath ocean vents.

Giant tubeworms, also known as Riftia pachyptila, had never been observed in the subseafloor crust before.

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