Giant sulfur bacteria

Yellow-orange Beggiatoa mats on hydrothermally flushed seafloor of the
Guaymas Basin. The incubation device in the foreground is about 50 cm high.
At hydrothermal vents, where H2S is released through the seafloor, dense mats of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria develop.

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