The long-lost worm is Haplosyllis anthogorgicola, a species of bristle worm, or polychaete. It typically measures no more than 0.24 inches (6 millimeters), and it burrows inside branching ...
The mission, undertaken by the Schmidt Ocean Institute and its 7,055-pound robotic explorer ROV SuBastian, documented a shimmering species of polychaete crawling on the seafloor. It's a ...
Others compared the polychaete to everything from “eyelashes” to “toilet scrubbers.” There are around 8,000 known species of these marine worms, which range in size from a few millimeters ...