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<font size="4"><b>Inside a Tubeworm</b> (Hot Science)</font><br><br>
Tubeworms are animals, just as you and I are, yet they have no mouth, no
stomach, no intestine, and no way to eliminate waste. How do they live? Get the
inside poop on a giant tubeworm, a creature so unusual that biologists
initially placed it in its own special class in the animal kingdom, the
vestimentiferans. (Say that five times fast!)<br><br>
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