New Discovery: Blood Red Worms That Thrive in a Toxic Cave ( EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)

June 3, 2016 It s wet, muddy, slimy, and smells like rotten eggs: Sulfur Cave in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, is full of gases so toxic that a person who enters would pass out after just a few breaths. But that didn t stop David Steinmann of the Denver Museum of Nature Science. Donning a special respirator, he first explored the cave in 2007. In this extreme environment, devoid of sunlight, Steinmann found clumps of tiny bloodred worms, each one just an inch long and as thin as a pencil lead. Now genet