Enough polychaetes made it through all these die-offs to give rise to the abundance of species we see today. The dazzling diversity on a polychaete family tree. 2011 K.J. Osborn.

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 ...

A polychaete deep-sea worm filmed by the Schmidt Ocean Institute. Photo: Schmidt Ocean Institute/Instagram Deep sea explorers want you to break out the "jazz hands" for this creature.

Six Pictures of Beautiful, Bizarre Worms That Slink Or Swim It’s International Polychaete Day, so let’s give these humble, but critical-to-the-food-web, animals their day in the spotlight.

Cirratulidae polychaete worms are covered in tangled strands of external gills. Some researchers refer to them as "hair worms." Karen Osborn Squirming throughout the ocean are thousands of ...

Polychaete worms, particularly those belonging to the family Spionidae, represent a significant challenge to marine mollusks through their shell-boring habits. These annelids penetrate the ...

In one instance, a 22-mm anemone spent three-plus days on camera before it ate a 105-mm polychaete over 16 hours. It spent the next 56 hours fully extended above its burrow, stretching to that ...

Object Details Author Fauchald, Kristian Citation Fauchald, Kristian. 1977. " The polychaete worms. Definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera." Natural History Museum of Los Angeles ...

S. R. Gelder, R. Palmer, The Nervous System of the Marine Polychaete Ctenodrilus serratus and Its Importance in the Taxonomic Position of the Ctenodrilidae, Transactions of the American Microscopical ...

In 2013, a group led by researchers at the Natural History Museum in London used the then-Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Research Vessel Melville to travel to the Central Pacific ...