The nonprofit Schmidt Ocean Institute recently shared a video of the hairy ocean inhabitant — which it dubbed a “sassy sparkler” — on Instagram. “To describe this polychaete [a type of segmented ...

To increase this likelihood, such worms seem able to induce their hapless hosts to seek water, spiders sometimes ... The dying spider may then have managed to crawl out of the cup, only to succumb ...

Images of pygmy seahorses taken by scuba divers were crawling with worm photobombs. Worms’ limbs, heads and tails poked out of coral burrows ... to eat in the water, or to detect the coral ...