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Why did scientists think that nothing could live around hydrothermal vents?

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With so much sulfur coming out of the ground at such high temperatures, for many years scientists were pretty confident that nothing could live around these vents. ... Tiny bacteria used the sulfur from the vents to make food - a process called chemosynthesis. Other animals, like worms and shrimp, then ate this bacteria.

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