"Flamboyant" New Squid Worm Surprises, Delights Experts (look, Massachusetts)

[D3stiny]

This think looks wicked sick.

Scanning the depths off the Philippines in 2007, an undersea robot beamed back video of a worm—or was it a squid, or a worm eating a squid?—with spiraling appendages, iridescent "oars," and a feathery "nose."

"When the image came onto the screen, everyone said, Oh my gosh, what's that?" recalled marine zoologist Laurence Madin of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

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[Brian.Pearson]

Lots of weird stuff swimming around in the ocean. Makes me thing we've just scratched the surface.

[GloryB]

It takes more than a squid worm, however flamboyant, to delight me....
but I'm happy the experts are having a good time.