"She can paint an empty room or a house at night seen from the outside in a way that seems to expose the human soul or the strange irrational worms that are crawling underneath the surface.
Up have come thousands of strange-looking worms and sea cucumbers.
The finger approached the glass from above like some strange damp worm, then landed softly and pressed, its whorls smearing and getting smeared with wet ink.
Scientists have discovered, for example, that the gulf seabed is dotted with oil seeps that support tube worms — strange beasts that live off food chains rooted in the oil and gas, creating dark ecosystems.
Whilst there are many unanswered questions regarding the ecology and evolution of these strange deep-sea worms, three important facts are now accepted: (1) adult siboglinids lack a gut, mouth, anus and conventional feeding ability, (2) siboglinids studied thus far possess bacterial symbionts and (3) siboglinids form a well-supported monophyletic clade.
Using different types of net they collected and sequenced nearly a billion genetic barcodes and discovered, at depths of up to 1,000 metres, unknown worlds of viruses, bacteria, worms, gelatinous creatures and strange photosynthetic organisms.
A few chalets away, Mez had passed "rubbery brown, fat worms" with a strange purple glaze, which she insisted on showing to me in her bathroom.
Powered by the earth's inner heats rather than sunlight, these dark ecosystems are often surprisingly lush, with riots of giant tube worms and other strange life.
The new vehicle is to replace Alvin, which was the first submersible to illuminate the rusting hulk of the Titanic and the first to carry scientists down to discover the bizarre ecosystems of tube worms and other strange creatures that thrive in icy darkness.
He was a good player, and I enjoyed being around him, but the thing with the worms was really strange.
