Primordial ear cuff

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the shape of these is inspired by a creature that lives in the teeming hydrothermal vent ecosystems in our oceans! THE GIANT TUBE WORM Riftia pachyptila. this animal has a symbiotic relationship with bacteria that use chemosynthesis! These little microbes transform the toxic hydrogen sulfide emitted from the vents in great poisonous plumes into energy that the tube worm can use. It is sightless and brainless. this chemosynthesis could be the way that our earliest ancestors, the creatures of the primordial sea, made food from volatile planet! This is a way to make food in the darkness. Cast in solid bronze, darkened with patina, and polished to a shiny finish