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"Flamboyant" New Squid Worm Surprises, Delights Experts

This think looks wicked sick.

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http://images.nationalgeographic.com...22_600x450.jpg

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.

Thanks to a new study co-authored by Madin, we now have the answer. The animal—as suspected—turned out to be a bizarrely bedecked marine worm totally new to science. (See marine-worm pictures.)

The paper, published Tuesday in the journal Biology Letters, describes the new species at length for the first time and officially christens the creature Teuthidodrilus samae, or "squid worm of the Sama"—the Sama being a culture with ties to Philippine islands not far from the discovery site.

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What a beautiful creature. Never surprised at the beauty of nature.

Why explore the stars when there are life forms here on earth we still don't know about.

Very cool animal theyve got there.

neat :up:

I always wanted to know what was down there.

we have a long distance to cover in our journey of discovery

Goes to to show we know next to nothing about 70% of our planet ,it seems like every time there's a ocean research trip something new and/or weird is discovered:up:

Dang, I bet largemouth bass would love those things.....

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Originally Posted by Armistead (Post 1542781)

Dang, I bet largemouth bass would love those things.....

Or it the bass muahahaaa... :O:

What a lovely picture. I'm sure I'll be seeing it again soon... in my nightmares. :o :O:

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Why explore the stars when there are life forms here on earth we still don't know about.

True, we know more about space than the ocean depths.