New deep-sea worm discovered at methane seep off Costa Rica
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New deep-sea worm discovered at methane seep off Costa Rica

Greg Rouse‚ a marine biologist at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography‚ and other researchers have discovered a new species of deep-sea worm living near a methane seep some 50 kilometers (30 miles) off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Rouse‚ curator of the Scripps Benthic Invertebrate Collection‚ co-authored a study describing the new species in the journal PLOS ONE.