These polychaetes (relatives of the common ragworm) are the most heat-tolerant animals known.

这些多毛类环虫（和普通的沙虫是近亲）是已知最耐热的动物。

They found carnivorous polychaete worms and heat-tolerant limpets that seem to have slipped between the cracks in the seafloor to colonise the cavities underneath.

他们发现食肉多毛类蠕虫和耐热的帽贝似乎是从海底裂缝之间溜进来并在下面的洞穴中定居的。