Paralvinella hessleri: The yellow worm that lives in acid and fights poison with poison

Paralvinella hessleri: The yellow worm that lives in acid and fights poison with poison

The wormParalvinella hessleri has an intense yellow color from keeping arsenic in its skin cells, where the contaminant responds with sulfide from vent fluids to form orpiment– a orange/yellow pigment….

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